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Movie Talk: A Cinderalla Story

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Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.

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One of My All-Time Favourites

I am a sucker for fairytale retellings but most of the time, they don't exactly satisfy all of my expectations. Not A Cinderella Story though. I have lost count of how many times I've rewatched this movie. I love it so much, sometimes I play it as background sound and end up just watching the entire thing forgoing what I planned to do while this film played in the background.

I have come to a realisation that I adore this specific Cinderella retelling because of how it was being retold. For example, Sam is not a damsel in distress. She might have been abused by Fiona and her step-sisters but there was a reason why she stayed. And what happened when she lost supposed reason? Sam stood up for herself. She did not need Rhonda or even Carter with that.

Another instance would be Austin Ames. I liked that he never fell for anyone's lies when he was searching for his Cinderella. I also liked that unlike the animated Prince Charming or other renditions of his character, Austin had dreams, or goals. He's not just the prince charming for this version of Cinderella. He had depth.

I'm not explaining my love for A Cinderella Story properly. In a summary, it's nice to have a fairytale retelling that obviously was inspired by a fairytale but does not scream fairytale either.

Last but not least, I don't see a lot of people talk about Carter. The things he did for Sam truly went beyond best friend duties. When he stopped his make-out session with Shelby because Sam's curfew is reaching? When he immediately went to find Sam after he found out Sam stood up for herself? I love my best friends but Carter's on another level. His friendship with Sam honestly gets overlooked a lot in this movie.

Rating: ★★★★★

More fairytale retelling here: A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish

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Story Stupefaction

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Reading provides an opportunity to learn and escape into new worlds at various stages throughout life, which is portrayed throughout the pages of The Truth About Stories written by Leah Byrd and illustrated by Samantha Rapp. Simply and succinctly conveying the powerful, enchanting, and captivating magic and wonder that stories contain and provide, this short story and accompanying colorful,…

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Overthinking: Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful What You Wish For is Goosebumps #12, released in October of '93. It's one I was dimly aware of as a kid but avoided, I think, because it has one of the weaker covers in the series and something about it just put me off. (The reason may be that the art isn't Tim Jacobus but rather Stanislaw Fernandes - a one-off done to cover for Jacobus who was on vacation during production time. No shade to Fernandes, it's fine artwork, it just doesn't look like Goosebumps.)

Which is a real shame, because if I had read this at a certain age, I might have gone utterly feral for it. Then again, I might have found it too painfully frustrating to appreciate. Hard to say for sure.

Let's overthink it.

First, the Plot: Samantha Byrd is the tallest person in her class, which has painted a target on her back because she is also a klutz. She was scouted for the basketball team but lacks athletic talent. She's awkward and clumsy and perpetually being tormented by the other kids, especially arch-nemesis Judith and her henchman Anna.

In one day, Judith trips Sam on purpose, spills pudding all over her new shoes, and "accidentally" knocks her out at basketball practice. She also keeps calling her "Stork" and saying, "Why don't you just fly away, Byrd?" No wonder Sam hates her!

One day, Sam is coming home from school and encounters a strange woman near the woods. The woman, whose name is Clarissa, asks for help finding a particular street, and is so grateful for Sam's assistance that she offers to grant three wishes when they arrive at their destination. Sam laughs it off, insisting it's unnecessary, but Clarissa insists and Sam ultimately blurts out that she wants to be the strongest person on the basketball team.

The wish is granted, but of course not the way she wants. She IS the strongest person...because everyone else is so exhausted they can barely keep their eyes open, much less play. They soundly lose their game and the next day, the rest of the team calls out sick with a mystery flu.

Worrying that they will only get worse and not wanting blood on her hands if they die, Sam tries to check in on Judith. Judith is intensely suspicious and accuses her of being a witch and cursing them. While this isn't wholly inaccurate, it pisses Sam off and, in frustration, she yells that she wishes Judith would just disappear.

Clarissa appears basically out of nowhere and says, very well, I'll undo your last wish and do this wish instead. Predictably, this also goes badly: instead of Judith disappearing, everyone disappears. Sam is the only person left in the whole world.

Clarissa shows back up and says, hey, I figured you might regret that wish, so I'll offer you a do-over. So Sam thinks carefully and wishes for everything to go back exactly how it was. Except she can't resist adding a twist: Judith thinks Sam is the coolest person in the world.

Enter a reality where Sam is as klutzy and unpopular as ever, but Judith hangs on her every word, copies everything she does, and stalks her obsessively to spend time together day and night. We all saw this coming, but Sam goes from amused to irritated to panicky.

She goes to find Clarissa, Judith trailing after her, and manages to find her and chew her out for ruining all her wishes. Clarissa says she's doing her best and has tried to be helpful and reward her for her kindness, and seems pretty offended that Sam is so angry. She only owes her three wishes, but as a kindness she offers one more.

Sam, irritated, decides that the best punishment for Judith would be to curse her with the same life-ruining power as she's been grappling with, so she tells Clarissa: I wish I never met you and Judith met you instead!

Sam sees Judith talk to Clarissa. She hears, "Fly away, Byrd." And then she calmly eats a worm and spreads her wings and flaps away, oblivious to what might be the matter....

Overthinking It: As Sam is narrating about being the tallest person in her class, clumsy, aggressively recruited for sports she has no natural talent for, disliked and mistreated by her classmates, relentlessly bullied by other girls for no apparent reason, with hair she doesn't like and an overall appearance she's self-conscious of, I actually said aloud to my audiobook: is this girl me?

Which makes me deeply sympathetic to Sam's plight, even as I shake my head with the benefit of hindsight. You fool. Happiness will never be found at the point of this vengeful spear.

Judith is clearly focused on Sam, but Sam is obsessed with Judith. She cannot conceive of happiness that does not include punishment for Judith. Given the opportunity -- repeatedly -- to improve her life, she can't think beyond what's right in front of her, and she can't let go of her anger long enough to realize she could have anything she wants. All she can think about is Judith standing in her way. And that is, in the end, her undoing.

What's ironic here is that Sam could have two potential paths to success: she could have taken direct action and simply wished Judith out of existence (much as Judith did), or she could have wished to be improved in her own right ("I wish I were a great basketball player"). But that's not what Sam wants. What Sam really wants is to be herself, but to be accepted and appreciated for who she is, by the one person in the world who is incapable of doing that. (and again, I say....Sam, are you me?)

The trope of the corrupted wish is a very old one. It takes a lot of forms. Often the issue is that the wish has unintended consequences or comes at a higher price than the wisher realized. What's going on with Clarissa is much funnier, though: It seems that these wishes are being poorly implemented, and not even on purpose.

If we are to believe what she says, Clarissa isn't actually trying to teach Sam a lesson about priorities or loving herself -- she actually just kind of sucks at doing magic. Which is hilarious and frankly terrifying in its own way. Whenever we see stories about magical beings and all-powerful deities causing calamity, we always assume malice. Isn't it so much more frightening to live in a world where vastly powerful forces wielding inhuman abilities are simply incompetent?

If You Liked This, THESE Will Really Give You Goosebumps:

Perhaps the OG example of corrupt wishes as a horror trope is the W. W. Jacobs story "The Monkey's Paw", where an artifact is cursed to grant wishes with terrible consequence. The story has been adapted multiple times in different ways, so take your pick.

In a similar vein is Richard Matheson's story "Button, Button" later adapted as "The Box" as a film and a Twilight Zone episode. Like The Monkey's Paw, it tells the story of a wish for financial wealth that comes at the expense of a loved one's life.

For a more direct take on the corrupt wish genre, try the horror franchise Wishmaster, where an evil genie wants to unleash hell on earth. You may also enjoy It's a Wonderful Knife, where a girl wishes she'd never been born and her town falls victim to a serial killer she once saved it from.

Not a horror, precisely, but the film Bedazzled is this, sort of - a man makes a Faustian bargain with the devil and gets wishes in return. There was a 1960s original or 1990s with Brendan Fraser that I quite like.

For a horror movie with similar vibes but a different central mechanic, try Happy Death Day, wherein a girl is trapped in a time loop until she can identify her killer.

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Thursday edits for angels surrounded by angels Shan'ann Cathryn Rzucek and Bella&Nico and CeCe, Candela Sol Rodriguez, Alyssa Jane West, Emma Nicole Speer, Avielle Richman, Ava Jordan Wood, Leiliana Wright, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Lucy Morgan, Mercedes Losoya, Norah Lee Howard, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Judith Barsi and Heather O'Rourke, Makenna Lee Elrod Seiler, Eliahna Torres, Jackie Cazares, Mary E. Sullivan, Olivia Grace Thompson, Lester Stillwell, Alexis Brianne “Lexi” Stempien, Blake Lee Stafford, Emma Grace Stacks, Kelly Doyle Sparks, Christy Lea Sparks, Kelsey Shelton Smith-Briggs, Michael Daniel Smith, Alexander Tyler “Alex” Smith, Laura Ashley Skinner, James Asa Rudder, Ashley Nicole Romer, Jennifer Jailene Rodriguez, Angel Divine Randall, Miakailah Renee Ramsey-Franklin, JonBenét Ramsey, Kelli Shay Powell, Allyceea Mabel Brynne Ennis, Janet Carol Pierick, Patricia Sue Phillips, Pete Peterson I, Kaitlyn Nikol Pukatsch Parsons, Cheyenne Rose “Chey Chey” Newton, Emanuel Wesley Murray Jr., Maud H. Munn, Doris Denise Milner, Bruce Edward Miller, Ruby Miller, Lucille Miller, Gwenyth Marie McWethy, Natallie Elizabeth McNelly, Minnie E. McKendrick, Bradley Gene McGee, Joanne Ena Lynn, Jessica Marie Lunsford, Brittani Lynn LaFollette, Eva Gladys “Gladys” Kincaid, Elisa Izquierdo, James Alan Ray Hubbard, Catherine Violet Hubbard, Janessa Micheala “Nessie” Horner, Nina Viktoria “Tori” Bashenova Hilt, Angela Dawn Harter, Michelle Heather Guse, Lori Lee Farmer, Anna Katherine Grudziecke, Edith Clare “Edie” Grierson, Aiyana Emily Gauvin, Thomas Edwards Gallagher, Gerald Alfred Gaddy, Annie L Foster, Leah Foster Whitacre, Julie Alliot, Rowan Damia Ford, Kathy Fiscus, Mary Ruth Davis, Ettie E. Davis, Joan Angela D'Alessandro, Tessara Kate “Tessa” Crespi, Samantha Joy “Sammie” Crespi, Nina Craigmiles, Lacy Cheyenne Cook, Eleanor Emily Cook, Edward Parsons Cook, Dakoda James Clapper, Nevaeh Amyah Buchanan, Hayley Renae Reasor Briggs, Noelle Elizabeth Braun, Skylar Mark Brady, Edna Louise Blank, Celeste Elizabeth Berg, Teri Earlene Bender, Katherine Marie “Kathy” Beets, Barbara Ann Barnes, Bessie Barker, Baylee Almon, Marivel Mercedez Alvarez, Jessica Anders, Elli Grace Perez-Speer, Adilynn Holmes Speer, Anniston Noel Speer, Ciara Nicole Floyd, Nelani Ciara Koefer, Jade Nicole Simmons, Elizabeth Ann Byrd, Story Wren Worth, Abigail Elizabeth “Abby” Fedosoff, Kezia Mason, Isabella Sara “Bella” Tennant, Avery Lana Linda Brown, Sadako Sasaki, Sarah McKayla Brooks, Jessica Scatterson,Jessica Marie Bock, Layla Salazar, Emma Catherine Grace Thompson,

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"Lift" (2001) is an independent drama written and directed by DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter. The film stars Kerry Washington, Lonette McKee, Eugene Byrd, and Barbara Montgomery. The film appeared at the Sundance Film Festival 2001 but never earned a theatrical release. Instead, Showtime aired the movie until they released it on DVD.

The late 90s and early 2000s saw an explosion of black films, but many didn't receive theatrical treatment. However, several were well-put-together movies that deserve a second run. "Lift" is a decent movie and an excellent role for Washington before her superstardom. Also, the film is a nostalgic reminder of what the early 2000s looked like.

Directors: DeMane Davis, Khari Streeter Writers: DeMane Davis, Khari Streeter

Starring Kerry Washington, Lonette McKee, Eugene Byrd, Barbara Montgomery, Samantha Brown, Sticky Fingaz, Todd Williams, Jacqui Parker, Naheem Allah, Susan Alger, Annette Miller, Pooch Hall, Braun Philip, Daniel Laurent, John Fiore, Crystal Tyson,

Storyline Niecy (Kerry Washington) works at an expensive Boston department store, using her knowledge of fashion and security to steal clothing from other stores. In her inner-city neighborhood, she resells her wares to friends and family while struggling to connect with her mother, Elaine (Lonette McKee), and worrying about her relationship with her drug dealer boyfriend, Angelo (Eugene Byrd). To steal a necklace for her mother, Niecy agrees to help gangster Christian (Todd Williams) with a large heist.

Available on DVD and streaming services

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Uma Mulher no Escuro

TÓPICOS DO LIVRO:

1- Um cara matando alguém estrangulado de forma suspensa e depois foi pra casa da crush fazer amor.1979

2- Uma menininha e uma senhora colhendo rosas e pondo a mesa para comer(Avó dela?). ----

3-  Alguém com falta de ar e que recebeu uma carta de livramento condicional(Cliente de adv ou acusado?).2019

4- A pedido do detetive Davison, a Rory encontrou o Sr. Byrd, que lhe pediu que consertasse uma boneca e encontrasse quem estrangulou sua filha Camille até a morte.2019

5- Lane Phillips é seu peguete a pouco mais de um ano, as vezes trabalha com ele auxiliando em casos(De crimes?).

6- Ela tem diploma de direito e as vezes auxilia seu pai Frank no escritório, ele faleceu, Célia a adm. do escritório avisou e ela foi no escritório arrumar os casos dele.2019

7- Forsicks o detento que cuida da biblioteca, viu manchete sobre O Ladrão. Ele mesmo pretendia ser solto e amarrar algumas pontas soltas com Ela. 2019

8- Ao lado de Catherine a amiga Ângela assistia a noticia de que outra garota desapareceu Samantha, seria a 5ª vitima, a 1ª foi Clarissa há três meses, chamavam o suspeito e O Ladrão. 1979

9- Jantaram  Ângela e seu marido Thomas e Catherine e o marido Bill Blackell. Eles eram sócios em empresa que implanta fundações para novas residências pavimenta estacionamentos e garagens. 1979

10- Quando as visitas foram embora, eu acho que percebi certa antipatia da Ângela para com o Bill.

11- Ângela tinha vários recortes de manchetes sobre O Ladrão, ela tem toc e parece muito aflita e cabreira com tudo.

12- Rory recebeu os detalhes do caso de Camille para começar a investigar, caso esse que estava sem solução a mais de um ano.

13- Visitou a tia-avó Greta na casa de repouso. A tia balbuciou coisas como "Você estava sangrando" e "Tenteite salvar".

14- A Ângela continuou obcecada com o desaparecimento das garotas que achou similaridades em casos desde a década de 60, com diminuição de frequência quando alguém grande era preso ou capturado. 1979

15- Ângela foi mostrar tudo a Catherine e ela concordou que havia sim similaridades, mas uma pessoa como ela não tria credibilidade. Ela esta com seu toc e ansiedade no auge então esta perdendo cabelos, sobrancelhas e cheias de marcas de automutilação, toda vez que pensa no que essas garotas podem ter passado ela vomita.

16- Ainda antes de ir embora viu o marido de Catherine e um funcionário seu, funcionário esse que parecia muito com um homem estranho que ela havia visto em um beco, desde esse dia ela ficou mais obcecada com o caso.

17- 2019 Rory viu que o escritório de seu pai e seus casos estão quase todos dissolvidos e distribuídos para outros advogados, mas havia um caso que ainda estava pendente, no caso a soltura de um caso que ela não tinha conhecimento. 2019

18- 2019 Rory teve conhecimento que esse caso estava em conhecimento a soltura de um homem, estava em discussão os detalhes. Ao que parece vai acontecer e seu pai estava tentando impedir, diversos termos da soltura foram negociados.

19- 2019Lane Phillips é seu peguete, ele já trabalhou por 10 anos para o FBI, traçando perfis e padrões de serial killers, e hoje dá aula de psicologia forense em faculdade sobre isso, tem um app que acha padrões e traça perfis é um projeto que criou com Rory, pois suas habilidades se complementavam.

20- 2019 Vendo sobre o caso descobriu que se tratava de um cara de 1979 que matava mulheres, e soube que ele foi preso graças a ajuda de Ângela uma mulher com autismo, ela começou a pesquisar além das informações que já tinha sobre o caso.

21- 1979 O marido de Ângela notou que ela esta no auge de uma crise, então a levou até um psiquiatra, ela foi medicada, ao ir embora começou a tomar um remédio que era de seu agrado e não o receitado. Começou a pesquisar mais sobre o funcionário do marido que ela tinha suspeitas de que fosso o raptor das mulheres.

22- 1979 Ângela juntou todas as peças inquietantes e mostrou a Catherine suas suspeitas de que ele era o funcionário de seus maridos, mas Catherine não acreditou disse que ele tinha mulher e filhos e não poderia ser um serial killer.

23- 1979 Ângela foi ao canteiro de obras onde seu marido era sócio e o seu suspeito trabalhava, lá viu algumas polias e nylon, o que lhe veio a mente a suposição de que o funcionário assassinava ali suas vitimas, talvez até de forma dupla com duas vitimas penduradas.

24- Era aniversário de Ângela, e o marido lhe deu joias, ela ficou surpresa, mas não por ganhar as joias e sim pq havia visto joias guardadas na garagem de seu marido, mas as que ele lhe deu, não eram essas, então de quem eram aquelas, na garagem ela lembrou então que ele poderia estar tendo um caso com a nova secretária, já que ela as vezes recebia ligações silenciosas.

25 - 1979. No dia seguinte ela foi fuçar mais a garagem, para ver o que mais encontrava e encontrou mais pertences das mulheres desaparecidas, nas coisas de seu marido.

26- 2019 Rory teve que ir visitar mesmo o cliente de seu pai, Sr. Thomas, e explicou a eles as regras para sua soltura.

27-  2019 Ainda intrigada pela pessoa que ajudou na captura de Thomas ela foi se encontrar com Catherine, para obter mais informações.

28- 1979 Thomas esvaziou toda sua garagem com as evidencias e não sabia ao certo o que sua esposa descobriu, mas ainda não sabia o que fazer com ela, por hora ia incendiar seu deposito para destruir evidencias.

29- 1979 Foi deixado um pacote na delegacia com algumas evidencias de vitimas e pistas, os policiais foram até a casa de Thomas procurar por Ângela.

30-2019 Roy conversando com Catherine descobriu que seu pai estava atrás de Ângela, mas Catherine supôs que seria para que a condenação de Thomas pelo sumiço de Ângela fosse anulada.

31- 1981. Franck descobriu uma antiga amiga de Ângela com um bb, e ia adotar com sua esposa esse bb. Aos 6 anos Rory demonstrou traços de toc.

32- 2019. Célia quando encontrou Rory no escritório do pai entregou a ela uma chave que contava a Rory a verdade que a pessoa que ela chamava de Greta como Tia Avó, era na verdade sua mãe, mas acho que não biológica.

33- 2019.Mesmo Greta não sendo muito lucida, Rory a indagou na casa de repouso, enquanto reformavam a boneca de Camile.

34- A verdade é que Greta é alguém que Ângela era amiga, Mas não sei ainda como Greta estava com uma criança de Ângela, mas pelo que pareceu na hora da adoção da Rory bb, é que Ângela estava morta e Greta cuidava da bb.

35- Greta contou a Frank e sua esposa como Ângela a procurou quando fugiu de Thomas, estava grávida de dois meses, procurou uma antiga amiga para fazer o parto e ficar lá, mas morreu durante o parte de Rory.

36- 2019. Rory começou a entender pq seu pai tratava aquele caso de apelações, para que Thomas não conseguisse ter a liberdade, pois era um serial killer e seu pai.

37-  2019 Algo que foi inevitável, o juiz o soltou e ela o levou até o local que ele ficaria. Foi bem produtivo, chegou e já cavou uma cova, pegou Catherine em frente sua casa e Greta na casa de repouso.

38- 2019Rory suspeitou de Thomas e foi até o chalé onde deixou Thomas, lá encontrou uma mapa de onde estava cada uma das mulheres desaparecidas em 1979, encontrou Catherine enforcada.

39- 2019Thomas começou a se enforcar na polia dupla ao lado de Catherine, mas com um banco a baixo de si, para poder sair, Rory tirou o banco e ele morreu enforcado.

40- Rory viu a mídia descobrir a morte de Thomas e o cadáver das mulheres que ele matou, ela foi até a casa que ficava com a Greta e e colocou flores onde sua mãe Ângela estava enterrada.

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The Facebook post read, “MISSING: Téa B. Choates, Last seen Tuesday 8/6 in Lithonia Ga area.” The social media plea came from Choates’s mother, Ebony King. The 19-year-old was last seen by her fiance, Aldeyshaun Locklear. Seven days later, Choates’s body was recovered from a wooded area on the outskirts of Atlanta, CBS46 reported. Locklear, 18, was charged with felony murder, aggravated assault-strangulation and concealing a death. He confessed to killing and burying Choates, who was allegedly three months pregnant, after a “heated argument.”

On July 16, Carl Robinson stomped the pavement in front of a Mississippi clinic where his wife and mother of his three-year-old son, LaToya Thompson, worked as a receptionist. He entered and gunned her down with a “.38-caliber hammerless Smith & Wesson pistol,” the Daily Journal reported. Robinson, a candidate for Mississippi state representative, then turned the gun on himself. Thompson’s colleagues tried feverishly to save her life, performing CPR, but she died before a medical helicopter arrived to airlift her to an area hospital. According to the Clarion-Ledger, her killer was served divorce papers just hours before.

Choates and Thompson join a list of black women whose fatalities are the result of violent, unhinged men who struggle with hegemonic masculinity—also known as the toxic caveman shit that has many men believing they can control and dominate women, forcing them to engage against their will.

But the recent killings of African-American women far exceed being “crimes of passion.” They are more so terroristic. In many cases, they have been plotted and executed with the same vengeance and reckless abandon as crimes carried out by Omar Mateen, Dylann Roof, and Timothy McVeigh. Each occurrence, more egregious than the last, points to the fragile male ego and a pervasive threat to black women.

On July 11, Jerome Stewart, 23, and Anthony Dees, 30, rightfully lost their shit when their mother’s murderer allegedly flashed a sinister smile during a sentencing hearing. In 2017, Dale Williams killed Elizabeth Pledger-Stewart in cold blood. Williams confessed to planning the murder, stalking Stewart in an alley along the route she drove to work, deliberately running her off the road and causing her to crash her car, and then emptying a barrage of bullets into her body. He was still firing when police arrived at the scene. His reason: “He was angry and, basically, fed up” after their split, WKBN reported.

This level of savagery is far more common than the incidents covered in the media might suggest; so much so that, for many, domestic violence may not be considered news, but rather the norm. However, no matter what the public response is, domestic violence ending in murder is a pressing concern that plagues women, particularly black women. The evidence is in the statistics: while according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), just over 55 percent of all female homicides are connected to intimate partner violence, a 2017 report by the Violence Policy Center, “Female Homicide Victimization By Males,” found that 93 percent of black women were murdered by men, at more than twice the rate of white women. Ninety-one percent were killed by black men and 58 percent by intimate partners.

Domestic violence resulting in death is not exclusive to intimate partner relationships. Children are victims of domestic homicide, too. Little Maleah Davis is a heinous example. In May, Maleah, 4, came up missing while in the care of her mother’s ex, Derion Vence. Her remains were later discovered in a bag on the side of an Arkansas highway. Vence spun an incredulous kidnapping tale, but allegedly later disclosed the young girl’s whereabouts, saying that she was hurt in an “accident,” reported KHOU. The speculation behind the horrific event was that the girl’s mother, Brittany Bowens, had broken off an engagement to Vence, allegedly, after both suspecting him of molesting her child and busting him texting an illicit photo of himself to another man. Vence’s retaliation was taken out on little Maleah.

Who raised these heathens?

As I recall my own brush with intimate partner violence, I sympathize deeply with these women. The trepidation I felt knowing my emotionally disturbed ex was stalking my every breath was lightweight compared to the terror I experienced when he beat me bloody. He forced his way into my home, body-slammed me across a dining table, dragged me by a handful of my braids, yanking out all but four from the scalp, pummeled my head with angry fists, kicked and stomped my torso, and left me with severed tendons in my left hand—all because I no longer wanted to date an emotionally unstable manchild.

I thought I might die, but I didn’t. I survived. These black women did not. Here are 15 black women who were senselessly murdered by the terroristic men in their lives.

Samantha Stewart, 29 Stewart, a young nurse, was strangled in her home by a serial killer she met on Tinder.

LaTonya Richards, 35 The father of Richards’s three-year-old son shot her in the head outside of the salon she co-owned.

Dr. Tamara O’Neal, 38 Dr. O’Neal was gunned down in the hospital emergency room where she worked by her former fiance.

Aisha Fraser, 45 Fraser, a school teacher, was stabbed to death at her home by her ex-husband, a judge with a history of violence against her.

Lashonda Childs, 17 Childs was shot dead days before her 18th birthday by a disgruntled ex who was 11 years her senior. She made several attempts to leave the relationship and made pleas for help through the court system.

Davokiee Ann Jackson, 24 Jackson, a mother of two, was shot multiple times in front of a friend by her children’s father.

Uniek Atkins, 27, and Sierra Brown, 16 The two sisters were shot and left to die inside their burning apartment. The teenage father of one of the sisters’ children was arrested in connection to the murders.

Sierra, 24, and Noelani Robinson, 2 Robinson and her daughter were killed by her ex-boyfriend—the child’s father and Robinson’s alleged pimp—in retaliation for leaving him. He shot Robinson and another woman and dumped the two-year-old’s bludgeoned body.

Jerrica Spellman, 29 Spellman, the mother of seven, was stabbed along with three of her children by their father for wanting to end the relationship.

Tanya Byrd, 52 Byrd was dismembered by her schizophrenic son, who took a selfie while holding her severed head.

Kishana Jeffers The father of Jeffers’ three kids beat down her door and shot her in front of the children on Thanksgiving Day.

Stefanie Vallery, 51 Five-time Olympian Danielle Scott’s sister, Vallery, was viciously stabbed to death by her husband, who couldn’t accept their pending divorce. He left the home after killing her, returning shortly after to stab her several more times.

Sherry Billups, 35 Billups was doused with gasoline and set ablaze by her newlywed husband because he didn’t like other men looking at her.

Uniek Atkins, 27, and Sierra Brown, 16

Sierra and Noelani Robinson, 2

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Salem's Lot (2004)

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Sneaky Dragon Listening Party - Ep. 33

Hello, partygoers! Welcome back to the most popular music podcast hosted by a father and his daughter! Now that’s narrow-casting!

This week: Mary brings side two of Laundromancer – her playlist designed to be listened to while folding clothes. However, Mary hs informed us that it can also be listened to while doing other mundane tasks so feel free to play it while you wash dishes, scrub the floor or clean the bathroom!

Or you can settle down into a big ol’ comfy chair with a mug of hot liquid and a plate of goodies, and listen to:

Judee Sill – “I’m Over” – Dreams Come True, 2005

B.J. Thomas – “This Guy’s in Love with You” – Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head, 1969

Band of Horses – Weed party – Everything All the Time, 2006

The Byrds – “Set You Free This Time” – Turn! Turn! Turn!, 1965

Cardinal – “If You Believe in Christmas Trees” – Cardinal, 1994

Lia Ices – “Daphne” – Grown Unknown, 2011

The Decemberists – “Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Soon)” The Crane Wife, 2006

Eric Matthews – “No Gnashing Teeth” – The Lateness of the Hour, 1997

Midlake – “Young Bride” – The Trials of Van Occupanther, 2006

Nick Drake – “Hazey Jane II” – Bryter Layter, 1971

Samantha Crain – “Kathleen” – Under Branch and Thorn and Tree, 2015

Thanks for listening.

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