Interview
with M.L. Morris
GS&NS: Hi, Marcelle! Please introduce yourself to GS&NS readers.
M.L.: My name is Marcelle and I am from the United States and live in Boise, Idaho. My art form of choice is writing. I write because it is therapeutic and keeps me out of the insane asylum. I enjoy writing short stories but recently decided that I would try and write a novella. I hope to have a draft ready by the end of the year. I have a book of short stories on Amazon. I like to call it a labor of life lessons even though the stories are mostly fiction. My book is called The Journey.
GS&NS: You mentioned in our previous interview that your poem, “A Night To Remember”, was based on an event from your youth. What does writing about it now accomplish for you personally (and perhaps even in a larger sense)?
M.L.: A Night To Remember was based on an event from my past and the reason I wrote the poem was to free myself. I think when something tragic happens, we are hesitant to talk about it. A lot of the hesitation comes out of fear that we might be judged because of that event or receive blame for something that might not even be our fault. I am a bit older now and I felt holding onto something that happened 20 plus years ago really wasn’t accomplishing anything positive. I think if anything, it holds a person (me) back. By discussing the event, even in a creative way, was paramount to letting go. Maybe someone can learn from it and learn to move on.
As far as a larger sense, I don’t have a larger plan beyond freedom. Freedom from the offense and freedom from the offender.
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