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Heather Marie Adkins is the author of the upcoming independent novel "The Temple." She enjoys hoarding books, writing until the keys are erased from her keyboard, and hiding from her overly-affectionate pack of dogs.

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  • I'm one of the few and far between girls who is genuinely terrified of concrete commitment
  • I can read a book a day and still function on a human level--i.e. work, bathe, sleep, etc.
  • I spent a month in Ireland, March 2009, and now my heart will never be in the US with me again
  • I love to write, and on the surface I appreciate the fact that I'm fairly sufficient at it, but I have a problem with self fulfilling my prophecy of failure
  • I love to dance, and spent ten years in lessons, but was never really all that great at it
  • I can not sing a note to save my life, yet I belt out the country music in my car
  • I've made some severely bad decisions in my life, and they haunt me. All the time. Especially when I'm attempting to fall asleep.
  • I am terrified of death. Not the actual act of death, but the unknown that occurs thereafter. I have faith, but I worry that I will cease to exist in any form, or float in a black nothingness for eternity. Yes, I'm irrational.
  • I am very secure in my faith. I know my god and goddess are always with me, guiding me, protecting me. I love Her so much my heart aches with it.
  • I am Wiccan, but I'm seriously bad at keeping up with ritual and magick. I wish I had an Elder to chastise me.
  • I love to learn, when I'm not being forced to. I'm going back to school to get my degree just because I want to, not because my parents decree it.
  • Sometimes I worry that my sisters don't like me, because I worry that I'm not the best big sister I could be, even though I love them both more than anything or anyone in the world.
  • My dog is my soulmate. I like her better than I like most people.
  • I am a world class procrastinator. It makes me hate myself. I need to write. I want to write. I have no motivation to do so. I have half finished stories and novels all over my damn computer, and one day, they will be finished. One day.
  • I'm a dispatcher for law enforcement. I hear some crazy things.
  • My flash fiction piece, How to Kill a Baba Yaga, is being published Jan 27th in a local newspaper. I won second place in the category for their literary contest. The way my heart beat when I read the congrats email, it was like falling in love.
  • I applied and was accepted to Colorado College in Colorado Springs. My Mom cried when she had to tell me I got in, but I couldn't go because we couldn't afford it.
  • When I was young, ten or so, I almost drowned at Hurricane Bay, when Six Flags was Kentucky Kingdom. The waves started and I was too far out. People on inner tubes were pushing me under and I couldn't surface. This big, burly black man reached under and lifted me, then carried me like a football out of the water. Then he went back in. I'll always think he was my guardian angel.
  • I am so in love with Ireland that I'll never be the girl I was before my trip there last year. After a month in that country, my heart and soul will now forever belong there.
jan 16 2010 ∞
apr 5 2010 +