Manuela Cardiga's Blog, page 67

OK GUYS!!! GET READY!!!'Cause have I got WRITER'S BLOCK f...

OK GUYS!!! GET READY!!!

'Cause have I got WRITER'S BLOCK for you!!!
(NO! I don't have Writer's Block! I resent that relieved sigh!)

I GOT A NEW BOOK...

"WRITER'S BLOCK - Licking It and Loving It"
"WRITER'S BLOCK - Licking It and Loving It" is about...
Well, Writer's Block.And being a writer. And loving writing, and words, and "w"s and all sorts of good and bad advice on writing and living. It's about beating the Bitch, winning and loving it.
And loving it even when you lose, writing, that is.

"WRITER'S BLOCK - Licking It and Loving It" is a wry tongue-in-cheek take on Writer's Block: sometimes humorous, sometimes lyrical; always passionate about storytelling and storytellers.

"WRITER'S BLOCK - Licking It and Loving It" is dedicated to all of us out there living a desperate unrequited love with that fickle Lover, the written word.

CLICK ON THE LICK! (I mean, link...)WRITER'S BLOCK

Poetry is your heartTrying to pour itself outThrough the ...

Poetry is your heart
Trying to pour itself out
Through the narrow slot
Of your mouth

Manuela Cardiga

NO EVIDENCE, NO CRIME

Do you all
Remember Alice?
Big-eyed Alice,
Chaste Alice,
With her blue ribbon
And her pretty dress?

How we were all
So impressed...
That Lewis Carroll
(such a kind man)
Took silly Alice
And made her a star.

Twinkle little Alice,
Twinkle from afar!
So Alice twinkled,
But I wonder Did she cry?

When Uncle Lewis
(such a patient man)
Took her boating
Or walking in the park,
When his hands
Wandered so;
Or even just his eyes,
Did Alice shrink?

Was that
The magic potion
He made her drink?
The poison brew
To make her think
Something was wrong
Something absurd...

That she was a bad girl
Getting upset,
Raising a doubt,
When he was such
A kind, patient
(affectionate) man.

Yes, I think
He poured it out
Into a pretty chalice
And served it to us
With charm:
(such a witty man)
The pain and the fear
And bewilderment
Of silly Liddell Alice
And made himself
A star.

Manuela Cardiga

We are so completely conquered, we sincerely believe our...

We are so completely conquered, we sincerely believe ourselves to be free.

The reason I absolutely adore History is that you can rea...

The reason I absolutely adore History is that you can really dish out the dirt about the famous dead. They can't contradict you, and better yet, they can't SUE!

Manuela Cardiga

FRANKENWEENIE (A tribute to Tim Burton)

I know it sounds
So gruesome
But I kept that body
On my bed
For a long
Long time.

It was a natural death,
And not a homicide
So I figured
It was alright,
And no one
Would mind?

I kept it clean,
Kept it fed,
Made sure
It had breath?
Sort of a Heimlich Manouver
To double time,
The Moonlight Sonata
For me worked just fine,
Kept me
In rhythm?

So hands up...
In came the air
Hands down,
Push-push
A groan like despair..
(See the air
Oozes out
And makes
This odd sound?)

So this one night
Joe stops by
Stood by my door way
Looked kinda shy
"Want some ice-cream?"
I looked up at him,
Then down at the bed,
At my hands curved
To that rib-cage
And shook my head.
"I can't, I just can't!"

He nodded sadly
And smiled
So I looked down again
At the thing on my bed,
And got up and took
Joe's hand instead.

And that is how
It all happened.
I admit it.
I gave up.
That is how
Love died.

Manuela Cardiga

To this very day, I have yet to meet a man whose wife und...

To this very day, I have yet to meet a man whose wife understood him...

As much as we claim to want to be loved for ourselves, we...

As much as we claim to want to be loved for ourselves, we are too enamoured of our own little self-deceptions...

We would turn away in fear from anyone who threatened to see us too clearly; and love us for who and what we really are.

Truth and lies french kissed, and somehow the story got t...

Truth and lies french kissed, and somehow the story got tangled/mangled in the tongues...

Praise for Guilty PleasuresElise de Sallier Best-sel...

Praise for Guilty Pleasures
Elise de Sallier Best-seling romantic Author of "Innocence" and "Protection"

The very first page of Guilty Pleasures saw me laughing out loud. By the last page I was close to tears. In between was a beautiful, engaging, colourful, delicious, funny, enthralling, gut-wrenching, erotic and heart-warming ride. The characters were multi-dimensional, the plot unique, and the storytelling an absolute delight. Thank you Manuela Cardiga for this fabulous story!

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Elana Sabharwal Author of "The Delhi Deception"
Debut author, Manuela Cardiga, arouses all senses in her stunning novel of epicurean and sexual pleasures. Guilty Pleasures is hilarious, entertaining and erotic. Cardiga has an uncanny understanding of our deep rooted emotions and relationship with all thing pleasureful, but guilt inducing. Her main protagonists are wonderfully flawed, yet at heart, both as courageous and romantic as long forgotten princesses and knights in shining armor. Beautifully written, in at times Victorian-like prose, Guilty Pleasures is a must read and will surely satisfy most readers' hedonistic side.

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Janet Grace Riehl
Poet and Author of "Sightlines: A Poet's Diary"

Cardiga's writing is rollicking and elegant--a rare combination. Her wry humour, careful observations, imagination, and erotic evocations redefine and expand our understanding of sensuality--found anywhere we are open to it.At heart "Guilty Pleasures" explores a time-honoured theme: If love opens us--spilling out both our beauties and secrets--can we embrace our fragility and that of the person we love? "Guilty Pleasures" graces us with literary layering. We see Lance Packard's book "Secrets of a Sexual Surrogate" become a sensitive manual on how to fully love a woman and make her happy. I'll definitely be handing that to my next lover! Cardiga has given us a world that's a joy for readers to belong to, and inspiration to take back to our real life worlds when we close the cover.
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