Rasmenia Massoud's Blog, page 2

Why I’m No Longer Mad at Boulder, Colorado

You can’t go home again. That’s what they say. Which is weird, because the truth is that you never really leave. Regardless of how many years or miles pass by, there’s always a part...



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Read the First Chapter of Tied Within

Chapter 1: Entering We’re talking about nothing again when someone asks if I know what terror feels like. A familiar voice, an echo, reaches through the smoke. Behind the guitar assault grinding and...



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Black Stories Matter. Here’s a Few I Really Like.

Stories matter. They change our minds and teach us empathy. Stories help us to understand ourselves and those unlike ourselves; experiences we can never truly understand, even though we must try. If...



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One of the Many Things I Learned from My Dog

Human beings have a weird tendency to project ridiculous ideals on themselves. Until someone or something sets them straight and they learn to embrace and live with who they really are. For me, it...

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An Author’s Rite of Passage

I was selling some of my books at a local book fair when a cheerful woman walked over, scanned my table, waved her hand over my display then asked, “But do you self-publish these stories or did...

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Resurrection Through Fiction

Somewhere in northern Colorado there’s a dingy gray duplex sitting on a cul-de-sac near the railroad tracks. Behind it is a dry, yellow field where grasshoppers and mice keep busy. One half of...

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Why I Still Want to Be Wonder Woman When I Grow Up

Adults always ask little kids what they want to be when they grow up. When you’re small, this question is exciting because it immediately propels you into imagining yourself in fantastic...

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An Expat Interview and a Mini-Rant About Ghosting People

When you have a blog, you throw your website address up in all kinds of dark corners of the internet. When you’re an expat with a blog, you register your blog site with various expat sites....

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Please Don’t Sit Next to Me

A few months ago, I was hanging alone with a sandwich while watching Atypical on Netflix. In the season 2 episode, “A Nice, Neutral Smell,” the main character, Sam, who is autistic,...

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I Finally Understand What Stephen King Was Saying About His Desk

I’ve always had a complicated relationship with writing desks. It seems absurd to say such a thing, because a writing desk is an inanimate object and therefore indifferent, which should make...

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