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Michael Scott Monje Jr.

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in Grand Rapids, The United States

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Michael Scott Monje, Jr. is the pen name of Athena Lynn Michaels-Dillon, the ringleader of the Puzzlebox Collective. Michael/Athena's prior projects include the Shaping Clay blog, as well as the Shaping Clay series of novels, Mirror Project, and The US Book. Her work has appeared in Neuroqueer: The Journal, Barking Sycamores, and other venues. ...more

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	Nothing is Right 4.25 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Defiant 4.38 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mirror Project 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spoon Knife Anthology: Thoughts on Defiance, Compliance, and Resistance by Michael Scott Monje Jr. (Goodreads Author) (Editor), N.I. Nicholson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sarah Caulfield (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imaginary Friends (Shaping Clay Book 2) by Michael Scott Monje Jr. (Goodreads Author), Nick Walker (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Waking Narrative it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Two Years

TW: Rape, CSA, Internalized Guilt

It’s that time of year again. When I was raped, it was not what you normally expect. I wasn’t penetrated. I was forced to penetrate. For a trans woman, that can be worse. I wasn’t on HRT yet, but I was out and I was presenting.

I’m not a “good” rape victim. That’s why I waited almost a week to tell anyone, and it’s why I didn’t tell anyone how it happened for

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“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”
― Brené Brown

tags: anxiety, authenticity, depression, mental-illness

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“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
― Margaret Sanger

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“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats