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Thanksgiving, Ferguson, and The Hunger Games

By: Amira K. November 27, 2014

Musings, Politicscivil rights, equality, freedom, Katniss Everdeen, liberty, Michael Brown, politics, protests, racism, Thanksgiving, The Hunger Games, Trayvon Martin10 Comments

Warning: This is a controversial post on a controversial subject. If you don’t enjoy having your assumptions challenged, please close this tab now and feel free to return when I’m writing about lighter, happier matters. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Not least because it’s one of the few times of the year when…

To Say Goodbye

By: Amira K. November 18, 2014November 18, 2014

Compositions, PoemsAlt-J, Breezeblocks, goodbye, love, love lost, poems, Poetry, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, writing4 Comments

“Sweet, so would I, Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing, Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night ’till it be morrow.” What a thing, I say, to say, Goodbye. You breathe petals into my ears, Hum bees into my heart. You crystallize In my fragmented…

The Reaping (The Seeds Book 2) by K. Makansi

By: Amira K. October 28, 2014

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HEY y’all in case you didn’t know, I WROTE A BOOK, and the lovely and delightful JESSICA P WEST decided to do me the honor of writing said book a review. Here it is. THANK YOU, JESS!

Harvest

By: Amira K. October 25, 2014October 24, 2014

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Every year around fall I disappear from the Internet. My day job, which I love almost as much as my moonlight career as a writer, is in the wine industry. I work as a lab technician at a California winery, and fall in the wine industry is when we harvest grapes to start the somewhat…

Central Coast, California

By: Amira K. September 21, 2014

Photographyart, beach, black and white, California, clouds, dark heart, greyscale, nature, photographs, photography, photos, sunset4 Comments

I don’t have a lot of time to do things right now, so instead of writing something meaningful I’ve decided to put up a series of photos I’ve taken of my surroundings here in California. I don’t have much else to say about this post, except that the photos are a combination of landscapes, portraits, iPhone…

Journal: Recovered

By: Amira K. September 8, 2014September 7, 2014

Musings, Travelfiction, gratitude, journal, words, writing8 Comments

To all of you who diligently supported my quest to have my journal returned to me when it was lost last month, there is good news (several weeks overdue): My journal was found by a fellow Southwest traveler, who is humble enough to have requested anonymity. The journal, it seems, fell out of my bag…

What Happens When You Don’t Like A Book You’re Supposed To Love?

By: Amira K. August 25, 2014August 25, 2014

Musings, Publishingbooks, genre fiction, ironweed, literary fiction, literature, publishing, pulitzer, reading, william kennedy, writing9 Comments

About four weeks ago, I took a book out of the library that I was supposed to love. A good friend of mine recommended it to me about a year and a half ago and it had been on my to-read list since then. Looking for one last ‘literary’ read before harvest sets in and…

#StandWithFerguson

By: Amira K. August 18, 2014

Musings#StandWithFerguson, civil liberty, Constitution, Ferguson, government, justice, politics, racism, riots, St. Louis, United States8 Comments

I originally had written out a blog post about literary fiction and publishing that I was going to post for today’s #MondayBlogs post. But then I sat in a hot tub with four other white people while the riots in a suburb of my hometown, St. Louis, rage on. While police shoot rubber bullets and…

COVER REVEAL: The Reaping

By: Amira K. August 15, 2014

Publishing, The Seeds Trilogybooks, cover art, cover reveal, covers, fiction, sci-fi, science fiction, The Reaping, young adult1 Comment

Remy Alexander wants justice. After narrowly escaping death at the hands of the Sector only to watch her world burn around her, she will defy everyone to find her revenge. Valerian Orlean wants truth. After learning what evils the Sector is truly capable of, he must confront his past in order to create a better…

An Open Letter to Southwest Airlines

By: Amira K. August 11, 2014August 11, 2014

Musingscomposition, journals, lost, writing9 Comments

Dear Mr. Gary M. Kelly, C.E.O. of Southwest Airlines, and everyone else from the top of the chain on down, As humans sometimes we are confronted by moments of inexplicable sadness, happiness, confusion, exuberance, love, or anger. As humans we also experience moments that are 100% explainable – moments of grief that lead to sadness.…