bob dylan and the art of songwriting


as a musician, i’m always gathering inspiration from other’s art. even more so than when i write. within the diversity of my music library, both digital and physical, you almost always have two different kinds of artists. those who are good musicians, and those who are good songwriters. and yes, you can be both a good musician and a good songwriter, but it’s rare to see them executed perfectly together. almost as if they are not two separate skills but one. i have a small collection of artists that i believe break out of this, and one of them is bob dylan: an artist i’ve been listening to more than usual recently. now, what makes bob so different from these other artists that break out of the box? well, bob is recognized more than just a musician. he holds the nobel peace prize in literature, just from his songwriting. so yeah, he isn’t like these other artists. i also believe that his songwriting isn’t completely based on melody like other musicians. while songwriting and poetry are the same in a lot of ways, songwriting has one prominent component that poetry does not, (in the same capacity): melody. i think in a lot of songs, people sacrifice the quality of the writing for more prominent and catchy melodies. and sometimes, you just can’t force your words into the song. so in short, i think a lot of artists base their songs around the music itself, not the writing. if there’s an issue, its the writing that is most likely going to change rather than the composition of the song. but with bob dylan, i feel like his songs are more writing-focused. it’s almost as if he writes the music for the story, not the other way around. and even if that is not the case, i believe he doesn’t try to manipulate his story and writing for the sake of melody. stories are going to be told no matter what. if the pacing of the words don’t work perfectly with the song, then that’s fine. a story is still going to be told. but don’t worry, the writing and the song itself always compliment each other perfectly. i almost feel wrong saying the word “compliment” here, because while yes, his music is beautiful, i feel like it is too rigid for words like those. these songs are so deeply meaningful and so much emotional is packed into every line. in the song “forever young”, bob sings the line “forever young” over and over in the chorus. for some reason, it’s the most emotional thing i’ve ever heard. if anyone else sang those lines, i don’t think i would feel like this. here, there is so many undertones and they all build up to that one line: forever young. so this is not just about his songwriting, but also how he presents these lines. this is not just some empty soul singing some empty lines. this is not just some heartless man singing heartfelt lines. this is a man who is singing what he’s written from his absolute core. every line he belts is full of emotion, so much so that it completely transforms the line. stories flow effortlessly from his mouth with such vivid detail that you can see the cinematic scenes in your head so clearly. all of these little things makes bob dylan’s songwriting so strong and so influential, and i strongly encourage you to look into his writing if you haven’t already. thank you for listening<3



 

What Happens When the Heart Breaks?

Hi guys! I’m back and if you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m obsessed with love and romance. Even though I’m a hopeless romantic I always end up heart broken or reading about a heart break. So, in this blog I’ll be talking about what happens when the heart breaks mentally, physically and emotionally. Come along with me on this roller coaster ride as we take a trip through the human heart.  

In so many movies, books, and documentaries they show heartbroken people sunken into a couch looking all sad and sappy. They usually haven’t ate, slept, or even showered for that matter. Sometimes that may be the case, but everyone takes heart breaks differently. Some people run to the gym to change themselves and make their exes regret losing them. Others lie on the couch and wish to never have to get up again. Some people get a rebound, so they don’t have to live through and experience heart break. 

When the heart “breaks,” a part of it actually enlarges. Which is kind of funny, because I used to think the opposite. I used to think that one day my heart was going to shrivel up and become dry and dead like a prune or a raisin. I thought that it would become so broken that I would never be able to love again. I still believe it’s true to some extent. I do believe that heart break takes a toll on the heart each time it happens, and I also believe that it changes the way that a person loves. What I no longer believe is that one day I would never be able to love again. There is always room to love, and you should never give up. 


 

The part of your heart that enlarges temporarily causes your heart to pump in a depressed function. Even though that happens the rest of your heart functions perfectly normally. Arrhythmias can also occur when your heart is broken. 

Some people acquire better physical health while heartbroken, but some people don’t. Most peoples’ physical health declines and it declines FAST! Heartbreak can lead to loss of appetite, stomach pain, headaches, overeating, or just a sick feeling. 

According to “Mental-Health-Matters there are 5 stages of heartbreak, which include denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. There are studies supporting the theory that you can feel your heart breaking. The release of stress hormones after a heartbreak can temporarily stun your heart muscle producing a similar feeling to a heart attack which is kind of insane. Anyways guys, that’s all I have for today. Thanks for reading, see you next week! 

Bye! 

my favorite solo beatles songs !!

hello there !! so, i had a really awesome bob dylan blog planned for this week, but it was deleted before i could copy it and save it 🙂 so now i have to write something else completely different. isn’t that fun. anyways, i’m going to try and write this as quickly as i possibly can considering i lost all my progress. so, i like the beatles a little bit i guess, but what i really love is their respective solo music. i definitely do have my favorites (as you’ll see demonstrated here), but i think every member has at least one song i like !! so yeah, let’s get into that !!


paul mccartney

say, say, say – paul mccartney & michael jackson

bluebird – paul mccartney & wings

live and let die – paul mccartney & wings

band on the run – paul mccartney & wings

ninteen hundred & eighty five – paul mccartney & wings

your mother should know – the beatles

okay, so paul is by far my favorite in terms of solo music. his band, “wings” is one of my absolute favorites right now. the band has such a large orchestra in their band, and i feel like that was really revolutionary for a lot of rock in the 70s. paul’s songwriting and voice is top tier, and i have such a preference for it. i also love his solo song with michael jackson, which came out in the 80s (it sounds very 80s). besides music outside of the beatles, i really love the song he sings in the beatles called “your mother should know.” his voice is so comforting and i find that song stuck in my head all the time. 

george harrison

my sweet lord – george harrison

beware of darkness – george harrison

got my mind set on you – george harrison

i’d have you anytime – george harrison

give me love (give me peace on earth) – george harrison

old brown shoe – the beatles

so, i actually quite like george’s solo music, but i don’t know many songs of his (all the songs listed are the only ones i know). i know it’s his top song, but i listen to “my sweet lord” very often. the ending of the song, in which he sings hallelujah in different languages is definitely my favorite part. there’s something so motivating about the ending and it feels so universal. “i’ve got my mind set on you” is honestly just an earworm for me. it’s cheesy 80s music but god does it get stuck in your head. “old brown shoe” is honestly one of my favorite beatles songs, and i only just now realized it was george. i really love the way its sung 🙂 

john lennon

i honestly really hate john lennon so i had to have a photo of him and yoko so i didn’t scream.

mind games – john lennon

beautiful boy – john lennon

happy xmas (war is over) – john lennon

anna (go to him) – the beatles

so i honestly hate john lennon lmao. i think some of his solo stuff is good, but he was much better in the beatles. i think my favorite solo song of his is his most popular one, “beautiful boy.” but in the beatles, i pretty much don’t dislike a single song he sings. but i really love “anna (go to him).” there’s nothing special about the voice, it’s just a cool song. okay enough with my john lennon hatred.

ringo starr

act naturally – the beatles

yellow submarine – the beatles

man ringo i’m sorry. you’re my absolute favorite member in the band, but i don’t like any of your solo music and you also only sang eleven songs for the band. so, that sucks man. but besides the stuff his sings, i really love ringo’s drumming. he’s one of the best out there and tbh he’s just the coolest. ringo lover forever.


so yeah, sorry for the late blog !! i didn’t anticipate losing my other blog, but oh well. i had a lot of fun with this one (i haven’t had fun with these blogs in so long god) so it was a nice change. anyways, i guess i’ll see you next week 🙂 

Welcome to 2023

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Hello, I have returned and I hope that y’all had an awesome New Year. So, because it is the new year, I thought it might be good to post a few new resolutions. Now, I am going to be 100% honest with you, I’m not gonna put some cliché stuff like workout more, because I already know it ain’t gonna happen so I’m not gonna lie to myself or y’all.

With all of that being said, the following that I’m about to list are some that I’m gonna strive to keep up with. Hope you enjoy:)

  1. Write continuously for at least an hour a day. Now, as a young writer, this should be something I do often and I do. But, I’d really like for it to become an every day thing because too many times I’d get an idea in my head but it’d be at least hours after that idea comes that I finally sit down to write and by then, I’ve forgotten about it. So, I feel like pushing myself to writing for at least an hour a day will help me get those ideas on paper or my laptop and it might even help my creative process.
  2. Limit the amount of coffee that I drink. Now, this is a very hard pill to swallow for me because I am borderline addicted to coffee. And I know as well as anyone else that it’s extremely unhealthy to drink too much coffee a day. I am not and will not stop drinking it altogether but slowly limit to hopefully just one cup a day. 
  3. Go out more. Now, as an introvert, this is also a painful resolution. And I will be completely honest, as soon as I am done with classes, I go straight to my dorm room and stay there the rest of the day. Every once in a while I’ll watch a movie with a friend in either the second floor lounge or the Phoenix, but that’s it. I am gonna try my best to be more outgoing and more extroverted.
  4. Develop a sleep schedule. Especially when I am at home, I do not have any sort of healthy sleep schedule. I am a night owl but an early bird at the same time. Most of the time, I won’t be able to sleep until at least 3:00 am. I’d then have to wake up at like 7:00 or 8:00, then comes the part where I’d drink 3-4 cups of coffee a day to keep me awake so that I can do what it is I have to do.

Anyways, that is all that I have for this post. I hope that you have enjoyed it and I’ll see you next week:)

Five Nights at Freddy’s THE LORE pt. 3

Hello and welcome back to the next half of our school year. I left off with part 2 of our FNAF lore. In part 2 we covered Evan’s, William Afton’s son, death due to a spring lock failure, and the events that led up to the occurrence. For the ones following and really reading what I’m saying, enjoy part 3! I was going to include photos for people who are unfamiliar with FNAF but the site wouldn’t let me it was being dumb dumb ;(

After Evans passing Fredbears Family Diner closes instantly. The police still have William as their top suspect in the missing children’s case. Because of the suspicion Henry considers cutting ties with William while continuing the Fazbear brand. William has lost two of his children causing his wife to become emotionally unstable, and eventually leaving William. With all this William begins his decent into his madness.

Well now most may be wondering what’s next. What’s next for the Fazbear business. Henry thought for months how the business could possibly come back from the events already occurred. He evaluated how many issues the last business had. His main conclusion was the spring lock suits. The work in progress animatronics from the diner would now be in Henry’s possession to be taken into reconstruction. As Afton was still a major suspect in the missing children’s incident Henry would not be so quick to work with him again, so he would have to do the project solo. Henry thought they needed more security because of the incidents even happening in the first place. Henry though on this for a while eventually coming up with a solution; remove the problems that distort the Fredbear name. Instead of doing it solo he needed to take it to the next level by creating a team.

He hired managers, chefs, accountants, executives, night guards, and more. He funded it with profits of the previous diner. They all had their first meeting to discuss what should be done with the animatronics. They decided to move the previous work in progress animatronics into parts and services where they would remain untouched and broken. They then began working on new “toy” animatronics. They decided to rid the spring locks and replace them with a normal suit that had an endoskeleton inside. They also decided to include new and unique different animatronics, Balloon Boy. Now they had two more issues to take care of, William and Security. Henry wanted to solve this issue on his own because he thought only he could do it right. While his company worked on the new location, Jr’s to Fredbears, he devised his plan. He wanted security that would allow everyone in but keep William out. He eventually settled with one idea of several. A facial recognition system. Henry had no doubts this would work so he immediately began putting it into motion.

Henry had a daughter, Charlotte (Charlie). He made sure that just in case the facial recognition failed his daughter would be safe no matter. He loved bringing Charlie to his work to see the animatronics, but he was always unsure to bring her after the incident. So, Henry created an animatronic that just sat in a box looking like a Marionette. He called it the Puppet. This animatronic would specifically look after Charlie.

The night of Evans death William went back to, the now closed, Fredbears Diner. William was filled with many emotions but mostly rage as he stared into the eyes of the animatronic that murdered his son. He wanted nothing more than to see Fredbear fall. He grabbed whatever he could and began demolishing Fredbear. The animatronic then became a pile of broken, unmovable, animatronic dump missing the eyes from its sockets. William fully blamed Michael for taking things too far and for causing Evans death. He carried hatred towards Michael that carried so far that William wished it were him that got killed by Fredbear.

After weeks William finally hears news of the new place opening, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. William thought this was his chance at a comeback. A possible distraction from everything, and an escape. William immediately drove to this new location and got out of his car heading towards his new opportunity. William started freaking out inside when the security told him to leave, and that he couldn’t be there by Henry. William begins to tell Henry how they owned this together, but that’s when Henry tells William he is out the business. William plays victim towards Henry causing an argument. With that Henry send William away. Henry feels he finally got the last problem out of the way and can now move foreward.

      He hired managers, chefs, accountants, executives, night guards, and more. He funded it with profits of the previous diner. They all had their first meeting to discuss what should be done with the animatronics. They decided to move the previous work in progress animatronics into parts and services where they would remain untouched and broken. They then began working on new “toy” animatronics. They decided to rid the spring locks and replace them with a normal suit that had an endoskeleton inside. They also decided to include new and unique different animatronics, Balloon Boy. Now they had two more issues to take care of, William and Security. Henry wanted to solve this issue on his own because he thought only he could do it right. While his company worked on the new location, Jr’s to Fredbears, he devised his plan. He wanted security that would allow everyone in but keep William out. He eventually settled with one idea of several. A facial recognition system. Henry had no doubts this would work so he immediately began putting it into motion.
Henry had a daughter, Charlotte (Charlie). He made sure that just in case the facial recognition failed his daughter would be safe no matter. He loved bringing Charlie to his work to see the animatronics, but he was always unsure to bring her after the incident. So, Henry created an animatronic that just sat in a box looking like a Marionette. He called it the Puppet. This animatronic would specifically look after Charlie.
The night of Evans death William went back to, the now closed, Fredbears Diner. William was filled with many emotions but mostly rage as he stared into the eyes of the animatronic that murdered his son. He wanted nothing more than to see Fredbear fall. He grabbed whatever he could and began demolishing Fredbear. The animatronic then became a pile of broken, unmovable, animatronic dump missing the eyes from its sockets. William fully blamed Michael for taking things too far and for causing Evans death. He carried hatred towards Michael that carried so far that William wished it were him that got killed by Fredbear.
After weeks William finally hears news of the new place opening, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. William thought this was his chance at a comeback. A possible distraction from everything, and an escape. William immediately drove to this new location and got out of his car heading towards his new opportunity. William started freaking out inside when the security told him to leave, and that he couldn’t be there by Henry. William begins to tell Henry how they owned this together, but that’s when Henry tells William he is out the business. William plays victim towards Henry causing an argument. With that Henry send William away. Henry feels he finally got the last problem out of the way and can now move foreward.

To be continued next week!
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Favorite Movies/ Shows I watched in 2022

The Gray Man 

     The Gray Man was one of the best movies I watched all year. It was action filled, extremely entertaining, and had an amazing story line. It wasn’t your average corny or cliché action movie. On top of that it starred Ryan Gosling, which is always a plus. It had the perfect amount of divulgence and suspense. I know he was in prison, but I hate the way that company treats their hitmen after they’re done with them. It shows that the don’t even respect them as human beings but only killing machines. It’s rated PG-13 however it does include killing and bloodshed which probably isn’t acceptable to all viewers so beware of the fact that it is very graphic. 

Glass Onion: A Knives out Mystery 

I also watched the glass onion: a knives out mystery is truly a masterpiece of stupidity. There are so many twists and turns. So, don’t think you know what’s going to happen because you don’t. It’s so unpredictable and funny, but the way the friends treat one another is scary. I wouldn’t want my friends to lie on me, suck up to my friend, and be greedy just for money. They totally cheated her out of her business and her compensation which upset me.  

How to Get Away with Murder 

I started how to get away with murder maybe a month or two ago and it’s been really good so far. Everything that happens has been unexpected. You would never think that the lawyer/professor that is teaching students her craft would be the one committing murders with her students. It first started off as little accidents, or coincidences if you will. They slowly turn into stone cold murders purposely with no remorse. It is Tv-14 but the show contains blood, violence, cursing, etc. so I don’t recommend it for kids. 

7 Seeds 

I started watching an anime series a while ago called 7 seeds. I’m very off and on with this show so it’s taken me much longer to watch it than I needed. It is very interesting though. It includes the curation of certain eggs and sperm between the most desirable people whether it be for looks, intelligence, strength, survival, or diversity and babies were born to be put into facilities. The children were trained every day of their lives and eliminated one by one for the ones who didn’t make the cut. One day their city would be hit by a meteor, everyone would perish, the city would sink and become inhabitable. These desired people were put asleep underground where they would be safe from impact then released years later when it was safe to resume the population, but the world would be much different. It’s an idea that’s rarely expressed. 

That’s all for this week’s blog guys! Byeee 

22′ milestones

hihihihihihihi. so since it’s the last blog of 2022 i’m going to put very minimal effort into making a little summary of each month this year and how it went for me//the events that took place. yeah. anyways, here we go !!


january: in january i started my second semester of my sophmore year at yazoo county. i was taking us history, geometry, spanish I and band. the spanish teacher got fired so i didn’t take the class. i ended up having a lot of free time around here. i spent my days with my best friend during band doing everything but what we were supposed to, and i ended a relationship that was draining me during this month. i went to msa’s preview day and met a close friend who was a junior at the time that i would soon be going to school here with. i started reading the bell jar by sylvia plath and absolutely fell in love with it. i was drinking a lot of mango dragon fruit starbucks refreshers. 

february: started reading prozac nation, which at this time i am currently rereading. went to a museum with my family and got a flower ring that i am still wearing to this day. had lots of fun with my little brother. ate a lot of shipley’s donuts. also started reading the perks of being a wallflower. went to an art museum and saw some of my future friend’s art on display. was in the process of applying to msa. 

march: got a huge collection of books to read. auditioned for msa. had the absolute best time with my best friend in and out of school (miss u bunches natalie). got caught in a couple bad storms, had to go to a hotel. wrote about being in those hotels. got super into car seat headrest. played guitar a lot, as usual. got accepted into msa, despite me only auditioning in one area. more storms, more hotels.

april: went to a festival. took my little brother to a bunch of places, got to see him happy. became absolutely obsessed with car seat headrest and will toledo. slacked off in band, took it for granted. got into arguments with my band instructors (definitely don’t miss them). had fun with my best friend and got in trouble for doing so. got into a web comic called crow cillers. started drawing the characters from it. met some people i regret meeting. 

may: still obsessed with car seat headrest. school was ending soon, most of my classes were slow and filled with absolutely nothing to do. i was getting sad about leaving certain people, but i ignored it. drew everything i could. left my legacy on bathroom walls. got a little obsessed with the riddler. went to awards day, got the highest average in english II, us history, and visual arts II. went out to eat with my best friend the last day of school. visited msa for new student day. saw a guy i thought was really cute (that would soon develop into something, little did i know). got obsessed with the riddler. always was listening to elliott smith, but more so here. went out to eat with my best friend and another friend, had fun in random places. went to a sleepover with my best friend, had… interesting experiences on omegle. 

june: not a great month for me. had a hard time mentally. stayed inside and watched movies everyday, played guitar all night and listened to music. sometimes cried. continued with obsessions. started talking to one of my closest friends, a senior literary:)<3. got into arguments with my friends. one of them ghosted me for a month. met someone cool in replacement. 

july: still somewhat hard mentally. was at home all the time, playing roblox and listening to music. learned some tricky songs on guitar. got some records. cried a lot. more roblox. went school shopping. got excited about going to msa, but more and more sad about leaving home. elliott smith listening streak was at an all time high, and i also started listening to alex g. kept playing guitar. said goodbye to my friends and my family. 

august: moved into msa, cried a lot. felt super lonely. wanted to go home. it got better for a moment. i hung out with my friends in their room every night. got into drama. had people talking about me. my friends helped me with that, i’m thankful. started making more senior friends. got a plastic rat named simon. rode my first train. met one of the coolest people i’ve ever met, and they introduced me to an awesome book series (goodnight punpun). had a lot of fun towards the end of the month. played roblox a little bit. got addicted to reign energy drinks (thanks kameron). 

september: got stressed with algebra. somehow was still afloat. spent some time with my family. did a lot of work. continued reading goodnight punpun. had fun working on the haunted house. met a guy i really liked, the same one i thought was cute on new student day. started talking with him a lot. met some junior friends, was really happy for a while. hung out with the guy a lot. he didn’t like me back. we still talked. continued reading the book series. was pretty sad about the rejection, but we were still friends. found a cat on campus, named her walter.

october: kept talking and hanging out with the guy everyday, felt like he liked me. became super stressed. performed a couple times. had midterm exams. cut my hair. did other life-changing things. went home for my birthday. went to the fair with my best friend and saw her for the first time in months. flirted a lot. won an honorable mention for one of my short stories. went out to eat with friends. turned 17. got a new elliott smith shirt. told the guy i was talking to i liked him. he liked me back.

november: started dating my boyfriend. had peaceful train rides. was incredibly stressed with my classes. emotional rollercoaster. started seeing the physical effects of stress on my body. cried a lot. went on a couple of dates. started flaring up a bit. was depressed n stressed. just a lot of stress. yeah. stress. went home for thanksgiving. missed my boyfriend a lot. didn’t want to come back to school. took my little brother to see the christmas lights in a nearby town. got ice cream and food. got some really good chicken & shrimp hibachi. saw my spotify wrapped. i was obsessed with elliott smith this year (always have been). 

december: threw a party for children. it was nice. went on another date, came back with no money. broke & stressed, begging for christmas break. felt very alone. burnt out. went christmas shopping and bought everything that i’m getting for christmas. very excited about what i got. still burnt out though. i want to go home i want to go home i want to go home. check out list made me want to scream. i have to clean out my fridge???@#??@ i just restocked.


yeah so that’s how my year went. cool.

Five Nights at Freddy’s: THE LORE pt 2

Welcome to FNAF lore part two. When we left off the last thing was Circus Baby’s quote on why she murdered Elizabeth. I wish you guys could see this in a word document because each character mentioned has a different font for their quotes. It just looks cooler. In this post we covered about 10 more minutes of the video source I’m using. Last blog was 11 minutes. I use the source so I am able to go into detail for you rather than an outline of the plot. Anyway, here is part 2. 

It happened because of William. All he could think of was his daughter lost to his own creation. He quickly tells Evan and Michael they cannot visit any animatronics whether they are online or off. William knew the animatronics wouldn’t kill Michael as he was too old. Evan decides to go visit Fredbear’s Family Diner wither way without his father’s permission. Though Evan was sneaking to this place William knew. William would devise a plan to stop Evan from coming for good. One night at 12 AM Evan woke to the sound of someone walking down his bedroom halls. He ran out his bed opening his door slightly to see a nightmare version of the animatronics that William built. He slammed the door shut but after hearing more footsteps opened it again to see the animatronic gone. William monitored Evan in an underground location he has not opened to the public. He made sound illusion discs that played a high pitch frequency just outside of the normal range of human hearing. The frequency is used to overload the human brain of whatever the admitter wants them to see. He used this to make Evan see the animatronics he’s seen before to make sure Evan would never go back. William knew Evan would think these are nightmares. William makes sure all of this happens to Evan while he’s awake so he can remember and feel it to a higher extent. He made sure these illusions disappeared at 6 AM each night. During the day Evan would go to Fredbear’s slightly more scared each day. William’s plan was in fact working. Evan’s older brother was unknowingly helping William throughout the entire process by continuously scaring Evan with a Foxy mask on. William saw this as perfectly fine and allowed it to happen during the day. Even encouraging Michael to do it. William watched what Michael did through the eyes of a plush Fred bear. Though Michael did not do it in the same reasons of William, he did it simply because he was a horrible brother.

            Michael organized Evan’s birthday to be at Fredbear’s Family Diner. He told all the kids in town about this party. Michael had to get Evan inside the diner one way. He knew he could simply by being the horrible brother he is. He would have to bully Evan inside the diner for his party. He gave it a try the next day just to be sure that he could. He ended up locking Evan inside a back room of the diner for a few minutes. He eventually let Evan out. Evan ran back home crying and Michael knew what had to happen the next day for the party. Evan would be more scared to go back after the day and Michael probably couldn’t even bully him into the diner.

Michael brought three friends along, all wearing masks of the animatronics. If Michael couldn’t bully Evan into the diner, he figured the four of them could. They forced Evan into the diner for his party. Evan pleaded to them all, crying, saying he wants to leave. But Michael only suggested Evan gets closer to the Fred Bear spring lock suit. They all picked Evan up from the ground and carried him to Freddy. Evan was shaking and crying, pleading. The boys bullied Evan saying he should give Freddy a kiss. They picked Evan up and put his head and half his body inside Freddy’s mouth. Evan cried and shook in fear. The boys just watched it all happen, laughing. Michael was oblivious to these spring lock suits. Only William and Henry knew that spring lock failures could occur. When this happens the spring’s break and force the suit into a fetal position. Impaling and crushing whoever’s inside. This can also happen when someone fails to wind the spring locks all the way up causing them to burst on the person inside. Evans rivers of tears pored onto the spring locks of Freddy’s suit. This caused the spring locks to interact with water which caused Freddy to spring into his relaxed position. This position included his mouth to be shut. Freddy’s mouth shut closed with Evan inside of it causing Evan’s skull to be crushed. Michael and his friends could only watch at this point.

William heard what happened quickly and rushed to the diner. Ambulances and police all rushed to attempt to save Evan. Evan was in a coma, and throughout this coma he had one endless repeating nightmare just like William’s torture throughout the week. William placed Evan’s Fred bear plus beside him in the hospital bed after being given the news that Even would be pronounced dead shortly. Within Evan’s coma the clock rung 6 AM. He shut his eyes and reopened them to see the plush Fred bear, who was like his best friend, and the four animatronic plushies behind it. In the real-world Michael said his goody bye’s first.

“Can you hear me? I don’t know if you can hear me. I’m sorry.”

Michael left Evan at that. Leaving William to say his final words to Evan.

“You’re broken. We are still your friends. Do you still believe that? I’m still here. I will put you back together.”

Within Evan’s coma, he watched the plushies disappear and he cried for one last time. William left the room after hearing the flat line of the heart monitor.

To be continued…

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Potential Re-reads pt.2

Okay, so this was the post I should’ve made last week after I had made the first part, but it slipped my mind. But anyways, if you had read the first part of this than hopefully you remember that all the ones that were listed were by April Henry. I have a few more books by her that I’d like to re-read sometime later but I’m keeping them at five for now. Anyways, hopefully you also remember that I’ll be listing more books by a different author. That author being Natasha Preston and I’ve talked about her a good bit so you might have figured that out already.

About Natasha Preston’s books, there are a couple that I read but I don’t actually own so I can’t go back and re-read them *teardrop* because her first book The Cellar is so worth rereading and it still continues to be my favorite of hers. Moving on, here’s a short list of her books that I have and will re-read and then a couple by a different author.

And another thing about her books, because I have already read them, I won’t worry about them hurting my heart because I know what to expect. Honestly, I don’t know if my heart can handle another cliffhanger or favorite character getting killed or becoming a psychopath. Anyways, moving on to the list

The Lost by Natasha Preston

Now with this one, it took me a little while to get into it, but once I did, I was done in a couple hours. It’s about these two best friends who were going out to the lake in their small town and they end up getting taken by these two college guys who take them to this shed that has a lot of basement rooms, and each one for the most part have their own theme of torture. One will be temperature where it goes from scorching hot to freezing cold, another one will be starvation where they stay in there for days to weeks at a time without eating, etc. And when the two girls are taken there  they realize they weren’t the only ones taken and there’s a small group of people already there.

The Lake by Natasha Preston, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®

This is also about two best friends, Esme and Kayla, who are counselors at a summer camp they went to ten years ago as little girls. But that summer, something happened, an accident, that they vowed no one would know. But someone does, someone seeking out revenge. Now, Esme and Kayla find a message THE LAKE NEVER FORGETS. Their secret is about to resurface and whoever knows is now out for blood. This one and The Lost were total emotional roller coasters that I can’t wait to reread.

This is by far my favorite series, and I’m not really sure if Holly Jackson has any other books besides these but if she does, I am definitely reading them. These books follow the story of Pip Fitz-Amobi who is a senior in high school that decides to solve a murder case that isn’t as open and shut as everyone thinks for her big senior project. But her journey’s only begun from there. One thing I absolutely love about these books is that the second and third one both involve mysteries that relate to the one in the first book. The author continues the storyline really welly. I will say, that this is a series where you have to start with the first book in order to understand it.  It’s not one of those where you don’t have to read the first in order to understand the second and third.

Anyways, that’s the rest of the books that I intend to reread after The Cruel Prince. I hope that these have peaked your interests and if you’d like to read any of these, I can’t recommend them more. I hope that you all have a very merry Christmas and I will be back to you in a couple of weeks:)

What I’m Packing to Take Home for Winter Break

Hey guys! So, this will be my last blog post of 2022. I won’t be posting again until January. Time has been going by so quickly it’s honestly sort of frightening. Even though Christmas break doesn’t start until Friday December 16, 2022, but I’ll go home tomorrow on Wednesday 14, 2022, because I’m exempt from my exams. When going home for Christmas break, we have to let all our teachers sign a for saying we are good to go home as well as the nurse and librarians. I go to the Mississippi School of The Arts and even our Brookhaven High School teachers have to sign them. We also have to sign a paper requesting what time and day we want our rooms to be checked and if they aren’t thoroughly cleaned when it is time for them to be checked the floor parents will make you stay until you have cleaned it fully. Then we have to clean our room top to bottom which includes emptying our refrigerators and unplugging them, which means I have to take food home. That prevents me from cleaning my refrigerator out ahead of time because the food will spoil. I only live 30 minutes away from my school but I don’t want anything to sit out any longer than it has to. I also have to pack my suitcase and a few duffel bags, because I will be gone for 2 weeks. Now let’s get into my winter break packing list of 2022. 

  • Shoes  
  • Tops 
  • Skirts 
  • Shorts 
  • Sweatpants 
  • Sweaters 
  • Hoodies 
  • Socks 
  • Undergarments 
  • Apple watch 
  • iPad 
  • iPad charger 
  • Phone charger 
  • iMac 
  • Makeup 
  • Glasses 
  • Food 
  • Wigs/ Wig Products (heat protectant, bio silk, straightener, blow dryer, wand curler, lace glue, lace band, etc.) 
  • Hair Products (shampoo, conditioner, brush, gel, bonnet, scarf, etc.) 
  • Hygiene Products (soap, deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, mouthwash, lotion, etc.) 
  • Leggings 
  • Jeans 
  • Jewelry 
  • Medication 
  • Journal 
  • Aside from packing my belongings I also have to sweep, mop, and take out the trash in my room as well as dust the air vent so that it isn’t filled with lint and dust particles. I have terrible allergies so that would be bad if lint is just falling off and floating around the room in the air. My bed is also very high up in the air so the dust would get on my bed as well disrupting my sleep. Thank you guys so much for reading my last blog of the year have a Merry Christmas!!!