however. i do believe in muses. i also have this crazy idea that every story has happened in some place or time. that's what muses are for, to tell the stories of people who would never have been heard. and so every once in awhile...and i mean loooong spans of time. a story comes to -me-. i don't know why, but i have to drop everything and write what i can. tonight, for the 3rd maybe 4th time, it happened to me. i've spent the last hour or longer typing furiously in word. i'm not even sure it makes sense, and by no means am i finished. but i like this story and so i thought that i would share with you all that i'm writing one. so that at least one of y'all will pester me until it's finished. because believe me, it will be finished no other way.

and on that i will cut this short because there is a voice in my head that is only getting stronger and she whispers to me a story i have to tell.

-shanna-

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