Hydrangeas from abandoned house. For whatever reason, God has lead me to this Abandoned House where for the first time in 10yrs it feels like home—I fell in love, but it’s like being given something that is not what you thought or expected. I never thought I would love another house after I was violently…
Author: Rhonda J Flanagan
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Fight Club
It’s been like a scene out of the movie, “Fight Club,” the one where Tyler Durden keeps telling Jack to hit him. “I want you to hit me as hard as you can!” How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight? The harassment has been constant lately as people keep…
Disappeared
After being once again told to leave another abandoned building, the old RiteAid store, I headed back down to the abandoned porch passing an old abandoned Kentucky Fried Chicken place. I figured the Sheriffs and State Police were called by my childhood old friend that I now knew had been stalking me since we were…
Social Services As A Girl And Now
The refrain to viciously “go to Social Services” had been constant since this all started. I had thought in the beginning it was just the regular response cops made when going initially on a call. I was finding out this was not what they were doing at all. Social Services was seen as derogatory sarcasm…
Sleeping In Walmart Parking Lot
I made it up to the Walmart after fleeing from the abandoned porch that had been my home for the past 3 months, I was already missing the Pigeons I had befriended, and getting another routine going was making me feel drained already. It takes a while to set things up, simple things like where…
Fleeing Abandoned Porch
The tension had been building for a while from various men around the area that would stop by and talk to me each giving me $20 I had thought because I was homeless, but learned the “$20” was for sex. It was just the continuation of more violent games to make me look like a…
Juneteenth
Woke up to the new fuel tanks being put in by Stewart’s, it’s been noisy, dirty, and had been a long weekend, but the guys were moving along. I was worried about breathing this all in and was having a lot of heartburn, so bad I had been throwing up the other night all night…
Carrying Baggage
Carrying around my two heavy suitcases was like carrying around all the pain I thought I had closure with, but all these wounds are being ripped open once again as I struggle with the awareness of all the new lies and violence I have to deal with and come to terms with once more. I…
Tangled Webs
It was cold and rainy this morning, I didn’t sleep all that well and was wet from the rain and wind hitting the porch making everything damp and cold. The pounding and digging from the new gas pumps being put in by the new Stewarts woke me early and I knew it was better to…
Sexual Harassment By Sheriffs
“You can fuck all my deputies,” laughing he said after getting nasty. No one will bother you there then. He was referring up to our Lakehouse. He was asking me out, but then he got more and more sexually aggressive when I thanked him at first for asking me out, but then he started in…
Rhonda J Flanagan 