One more for “The Ex Files”

He made her feel like she wasn’t worth anything as her tears fell at his feet, she looked in the mirror and couldn’t see herself anymore, she only saw what he wanted her to be…and she was only what he wanted to see….from denying her for not accepting to do as he wanted. She had [...]

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I’ve met a purpose in my life!!

A while back I began a series of short stories I wrote and filed under “The Write Stuff” http://rubycantu.wordpress.com/category/the-write-stuff/  these are/were based on my own personal experiences as well as others from when I worked in a Domestic Violence shelter and answered the hotline and helped battered women escape their abusive situations. When I started this [...]

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The EX Files~ Part 6

To read the complete series go to “CATEGORIES” on the right side and click on “THE WRITE STUFF”.  I used to hate a lot of things around me, things like….well everything. I hated the world. I didn’t want to hate it, but I felt it hated me. I didn’t belong anywhere, because I had been [...]

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The EX Files ~ Part 5

***To read the complete series go to “CATEGORIES” on the right side and click on “THE WRITE STUFF”.*** She realized that he was an insecure man, jealous, controlling and not all together very bright, but he also had a mean streak to him that terrified her. She had in mind that her vows were meant [...]

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The Ex Files ~ Part 4

**Domestic Violence is not just physical abuse, it includes, verbal, emotional and also includes psychological as well as other forms of abuse. Domestic Violence should not happen to anyone…EVER. ** She set out to find a babysitter and a job, she had no prior experience but was smart and willing and able to do anything, [...]

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The Ex Files ~ 3

It took a very short time for them to get settled into their new home, he began working the very next day after they arrived, so it would be up to her to get everything in order in their new home. They had lucked out in the arrangements for what would be home; it was [...]

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Ruby’s real world~

I stayed up late last night and finished one book and started another, but by the second chapter I was ready to call it a night. I managed to get some decent sleep but as luck or mental defect would have it I was up early, I wish I could have stayed in bed longer [...]

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The Ex Files ~ Part II

Routines were being established in their marriage, but soon that would change, unexpectedly her husband announced a move, not to a nearby town, but to a different state entirely. It was what she had always wanted, to be far away from those that caused her so much pain at home. Her mother was the one [...]

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The Ex Files ~ Part I

    Her first inkling that she had royally fucked up went by seemingly unnoticed or she laughed it off thinking “he’s just being cute”, he had asked her to get his water going in the shower, she got up and went to the bathroom and turned the water on, she only turned one knob, [...]

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Up and at ‘em~

Good morning and happy Saturday…I sit here having read through me emails…some not all…read my newspapers..some not all….and having my coffee…which seems to be on the weaker side this morning. I stayed up until 3am reading one book and thinking finally I can go to sleep. Ha! I started another book and ended up staying [...]

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