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:: Tess Sebast ::

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Theresa Ward was born and raised in Sacramento, California, where she spent her Catholic school upbringing penning mystery stories and writing and directing her own one-act plays. Needless to say, the fourth grade audience responded. These plays, shorts, poems and unfinished novels followed her into film school at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It was here that she fell in love with screenwriting, and the affair has turned into one hell of a romance. Theresa currently works as a freelance writer, specializing in commercial treatments, script coverage/doctoring, Internet virals and screenwriting. Despite the sleepless nights, hopeless perfectionism, constant daydreaming and future case of carpal tunnel, she wouldn’t have it any other way.

::04:02:08::

::: A Long Time Coming :::

Life is beginning to fit.
Like hand-me-down clothes,
It’s worn, faded; someone else’s material trail.
Plans come together,
Just as friends join hands.
The road to nowhere takes shape,
While flowers begin to grow beside the weeds,
And trees overshadow the cracked earth.
Cautiously I open the closet of longing
And find a new spark of desire.
My love, perhaps, is too much the likeness
Of Costco wholesale products:
waiting on the shelf,
abundant,
too much for any one person to enjoy.

But I’d rather free my spirit,
Leave it dangling on a limb,
Open to persecution,
Than live forever trapped inside myself,
Feeling unworthy of even my own emotions.

Written by: ~ Tess Sebast

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