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Gianna Perada Carini

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in Greenbrae, The United States

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Horror, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Anais Nin, Edgar Allen Poe, Alfred Hitchcock, Anne Rice, Stephen King ...more

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March 2012

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Growing up in North Beach during the late 70s/early 80s, Gianna Perada fell in love with the written word at the tender age of 7. Her mother bought her a diary that year for Christmas, and instead of using it as a day-to-day ramble-fest, little Gianna used it to pen short stories with dark undertones and clever twists and turns, influenced by two of her favorite TV shows at the time: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Twilight Zone, and her favorite author, Edgar Allen Poe. Along came a fascination with horror films and the supernatural. She began writing Blood Life roughly 15 years ago and has rewritten it about 100 times since, having trouble letting it go. Working for several years as a copy-editor and book layout designer for small publi ...more

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The Utter Heartbreak of Defeat

DISCLAIMER: SAD RAW POST. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED.

Well, it’s official. We lost the battle against CANCER. My dad, the best dad in the world, died on Monday, March 11th, at 6:30 in the morning.

We (my mom and I) tried all he would allow. Cannabis oil, made the Rick Simpson way, was the alternative treatment of choice, and we had so much hope, but my dad was too afraid to opt-out of chemotherapy as an

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Quotes by Gianna Perada Carini

“Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.”
― Gianna Perada

tags: deep-thoughts, healing, life-and-living, moving, pain, rebirth, soulful

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Gianna’s Quotes

“Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.”
― Gianna Perada

tags: deep-thoughts, healing, life-and-living, moving, pain, rebirth, soulful

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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: darkness

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