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Where else can you get: soul challenging poetry and essays from a defrocked pastor, aging senior and a 25+ year recovering addict?
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Hey Ya’ll, Watch This (opens the original)
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Hello! I’m Kim E. Williams, a retired, sixty-something man with a life history of ordained ministry (defrocked), marketing, sales, training and now writing. (more about that here) I’m obsessively writing new fiction and poetry these days and your support helps me write and keep from going back to work.Soulful Witness is a reader-suppor
Write Me/Beach August—Two Poems (opens the original)
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Hello! I’m Kim E. Williams, a retired, sixty-something man with a life history of ordained ministry (defrocked), marketing, sales, training and now writing. (more about that here) I’m obsessively writing new fiction and poetry these days and your support helps me write and keep from going back to work.Soulful Witness is a reader-suppor
The Stigma of Addiction (opens the original)
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In a recent chat, (Kel) and I were discussing addiction and the stigma that often rides side-car with that label. I have lived experience as a person in long-term recovery. Kel brings over ten years of experience working in mental health in the UK, alongside a First-Class degree in Psychology. It just made sense for us to write about it together.Soulful Witness is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or p
Marie Angèle—Excerpt #2 (opens the original)
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This page exists because of Paid Subscriptions. Thank you for supporting my work.My second fiction novel—working title, Marie Angèle—a prequel to The Gift, will publish in 2027.
Haikus—The Body Knows (opens the original)
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You might want to subscribe to this…Subscribe nowI’ve written 38 haiku-style poems as epigraphs for the chapters of my new novel. Some of them deserve an audience of their own. Grief doesn’t live in your head. It lives in your legs, your ribs, the place your hand goes when your chest gets tight. These four poems are about the how the body feels before our mind catches up. Think of them as an an
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