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Poem / Poetry

January 22, 2025

Reads: 93

Comments: 4

The Booksie Classic House

Here is a link to my you tube channel where I read my poetry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZptFkj_ezoo Here is the link to my limited edition e-book, Rise Up: Collected Poems and Short Stories, which is available on Booksie. https://booksie.chainletter.io/i/thomaswcase888 Read More

Tags: life, poverty, addiction

Featured Review by don bryant

"This was brilliant, Thomas. Your cat "doing his best to rub up against you" really got to me. One of your best!" Read More

Short Story / Romance

January 14, 2025

Reads: 32

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Sakura Rose is a fighter. Her teenage years being literally bombed to pieces by the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and with parents like hers, their was no way Sakura would grow up to be anything but a winner. *Sensitive content, may be triggering… Read More

Tags: romance, addiction, family-dynamics, inpiring

Featured Review by Jazzyye—

"This is a beautiful story!" Read More

In this story, family is everything to Rebecca. She tries everything she can to hold her family together, after many years of chaos, turmoil, and brokenness. Understanding and compassion has become her number one motivator in this short story of love and forgiveness. Read More

Tags: redemption, addiction, family-dynamics

Short Story / Memoir

January 02, 2025

Reads: 50

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A true story of being abused by hospital staff in a small town ruled by a single mindset. This story is about my struggle from past to present and continues to evolve to help others stand together for change. My dealings with Doctors, friends, family, and others is continuous in… Read More

Tags: life, addiction, cancer, health, mental-health

Poem / Non-Fiction

January 01, 2025

Reads: 38

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: addiction, smoking, cigarettes

Essay / True Confessions

December 28, 2024

Reads: 54

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

I try to make sense of what is happening in my life, I need someone to vent to, but can’t talk to people I know about this problem…. Read More

Tags: love, depressed, change, addiction, addicted

This 'fictional' story, ‘inspired by’ real events, follows a group of people attempting to navigate the surrealities of modern life in a blatantly dystopic society. Read More

Tags: satire, fear, addiction, realism

Poem / Poetry

November 14, 2024

Tags: pain, addiction, suffering, aa, 12-steps

Book / Other /

November 11, 2024

Reads: 2377

Comments: 30

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

Amidst the explosive grunge scene in 1993 Seattle, Riley Brooks finds herself broken after an abusive relationship with her first love comes to an end. Struggling to put the pieces back together, she has a chance encounter with the friendly, but enigmatic Landon Cross one night at a bar, oblivious… Read More

Tags: depression, addiction, abusiverelationship, 90s, 1990s

Featured Review by IceBreaker Iceland

"It really doesn't take much to get immersed in your writing. I don't know why but it's something about the 90s that is so nostalgic even though ..." Read More

I’m proud of the one who recovers. He showed me how to heal in a way I never knew. I’m healing too and am thankful for all I learned from him Read More

Tags: addiction, healing, trauma, aa, 12-steps

In admiration of the man who taught me what healing looks like. He lived it and let me see it. He didn’t have to uncover himself for me to see but he let me look upon his soul. I’m proud of him. His recovery and steadfastness inspires me always. Read More

Tags: addiction, healing, recovery, aa, 12-steps

Poem / Poetry

October 29, 2024

Tags: addiction, recovery, trauma, deliverance, 12-steps

How the alcohol industry falsely advertises alcohol Read More

Tags: drugs, addiction

Alcohol Addiction Read More

Tags: addiction

How social drinking shouldn’t be normalized anymore than cigarettes, and other destructive addictive drugs. Read More

Tags: addiction, sobriety

Poem / Poetry

September 25, 2024

Reads: 94

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hP285EP-bo Link to my you tube channel where I read my poetry. Read More

Tags: life, pain, addiction

An introduction as I am coming up on my 3 year sobriety day this month. A lot of reflection, and pause before I dig into the rest of the story as to how I made it this far... Read More

Tags: survivor, life, addiction, balance, adrift

Poem / Poetry

July 19, 2024

Reads: 136

Comments: 3

The Dysfunctional Poetry House

Tags: depression, suicide, help, addiction, mental-health

Poem / Poetry

June 30, 2024

Reads: 85

Comments: 4

Shelves: 2

The Poetically Thinking House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDs9dUjQz58 Check out my you tube channel where I read my poetry. Read More

Tags: addiction

Tags: addiction, alcoholism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEncp495668 Check out my you tube channel where I read from my recent book, Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems, available on Amazon.com Read More

Tags: writing, addiction, cats, procrastination, sobriety

Featured Review by cmichael potter

"Last line the best, Thomas. Yes, very true. As maudlin and girlish as I'm being, I find myself 'liking' your writing that rescues itself in the ..." Read More

Poem / Poetry

April 17, 2024

Reads: 57

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

A poem I had to write for my health class. Read More

Tags: addiction

Poem / Poetry

April 16, 2024

Reads: 89

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJiC_uaqh0s Check out my you tube channel where I read my poetry from my recent book, Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems, available on Amazon.com Read More

Tags: empty, poverty, addiction, alcoholism, idolatry

Short Story / Fantasy

April 03, 2024

Reads: 116

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This is a short story I wrote a couple of years ago. You will relate, because it is about cell phones. Enjoy! Read More

Tags: fantasy, travel, addiction, cell-phones, most

Poem about a break up, and addiction. Read More

Tags: love, heartbreak, breakup, addiction

Dealing with someone that is dealing with an addiction or a mental health issue is what Consumed was written about. You can do all you can to try and help someone, but ultimately it is up to them. Read More

Tags: poetry, addiction, consumed, aria-wynter, broking-devotion

They say monsters are imaginary but what about how people can turn into our nightmares. Living with someone who is spiraling into a person you don't recognize. Changing from addiction or affliction, and not being able to do anything to save them from what they are becoming, and knowing one… Read More

Tags: dark, addiction, dark-poetry, aria-wynter, the-monster

Check out my book, Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems on Amazon.com And if the mood strikes you, check out my you tube channel where I read my poetry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2roycihKc0 Read More

Tags: empty, addiction, alcoholism, idolatry

Featured Review by Fia Naturie

"Powerful writing. "If one has given himself completely." " Read More

Poem / True Confessions

February 22, 2024

Reads: 129

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: poetry, sad, addiction, emotional, musings

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