![]() All I know is that tonight, I actually faced my fear and I survived it. I know people are supposed to mourn the loss of life. For the first time in what seems like an eternity I can breathe. Even if he can no longer hurt me.Ī shuddering sob pushes its way out of me. If I were a braver person, I would’ve placed my ear to his chest to just make sure that his cold, blackened heart had stilled. ![]() His glassy eyes have lost their focus, and his skin its color. I drop the broken bottle, the glass shattering as it hits the ground, and fall to my knees. ![]() My entire body shakes, adrenaline still pumping through my veins. No one can survive that much blood loss, not even the monster at my feet. There’s far too much of it staining the kitchen’s polished floors. ![]() It’s splashed across my chest, and to my horror, I can taste a few droplets on my lips. There’s blood on my hands, blood between my toes, blood speckled in my hair. ![]()
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Well, it looks like Spears is taking that advice to heart. ![]() “Coming out of the limbo,” Spears wrote on Instagram, the book’s slain protagonist “has a decision to make … greet the same people who murdered her or create a whole new life.” She’s taken to social media to share everything from her French Polynesian vacation and early Christmas decorating to her latest creative endeavor: a murder novel that seems to borrow themes from Spears’ life. ![]() In the wake of Britney Spears’ big conservatorship win (her father, Jamie, was removed from controlling her estate), the “Toxic” singer has been embracing simple pleasures and new activities. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the fall of 2008, Bahadur, a young Canadian, quit his job writing market-research reports in Chicago and flew in an aging Russian Antonov to Puntland, a breakaway region of northeastern Somalia that has become, as he puts it, “the epicenter” of the piracy business. But, as Jay Bahadur makes clear in “The Pirates of Somalia,” buccaneering has evolved into a very modern activity, complete with night vision goggles, GPS units and even investment advisers. The hijacking of the Alabama, the first seizure of an American-flagged vessel in 200 years, drew the country’s attention to the return of a scourge once associated with plank-walks, treasure chests and peg-legged marauders. ![]() The surviving pirate was seized and taken to the United States, where he pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom to a host of charges and was sentenced to 33 years and nine months in a federal prison. At dusk on April 12, Navy snipers killed three of the Somalis, and Phillips was rescued unharmed. Bainbridge, a destroyer that arrived at the scene not long after the hijacking. For five days, the pirates and their hostage drifted in the Indian Ocean, shadowed by the U.S.S. 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Huddleston wrote this decades after Morrison's death and had years of drug and alcohol abuse, head injuries from car accidents that were a result of driving under the influence, stints is psychiatric wards and yet she can recall her supposed time (none of the surviving Doors and none of their inner-circle seem have any memory at all of Ms. I don't know what kind of fee the normally intelligent and honest Pamela Des Barres received for writing the foreword for this but it must have been a pretty hefty fee. This reads like a kinky piece of fan fiction and I cannot stress the FICTION strongly enough. So, as long as someone calls a book a "memoir" they can say whatever they please? I really wish Judy Huddleston would've kept her bizarre sexual fantasies about Jim Morrison to herself instead of trying to present them as a "memoir" in order to make money. ![]() Didn't she write this badly? 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