Stories with Purpose
How my stories develop Since I was a kid, I have made up little stories in my head as I tried to go to sleep. The stories have always been supernatural in nature for one specific reason. My health sux. Let me explain. I've had migraines every day since I was 5 years old. Cluster headaches for 6 months out of the year since I was twelve. I'm in my mid-forties now. I've had CIN3 electrocuted out and endometriosis chopped out twice. They found it pretty much everywhere on my organs and the outer cervix, everywhere except inside the cervix where it's normally found. Anyways, that's a lot of years with a lot of pain, and the way my brain can cope is by giving the pain a purpose. In my stories, having some sort of supernatural power is painful, or the pain is from the powers developing, or it's a demon or beast trying to claw its way out. Somehow, it helps me process and accept my own pain and helps me cope. Once I fall asleep, the ideas manifest into fantastical ...
