Where darkness intertwines seamlessly with delight

Poems and Art Crafted to evoke a contemplative and regenerative mind

Tales of fierce loss and affecting Judgements

Storytelling is a timeless gift of truths and untruths

sharing experiences, philosophies and REJUVENATING Thoughts

Immerse yourself in a realm of emotions and introspection

anna’s atrocities

You are all invited on a journey of dark beauty along the brinks of madness!

The way is through and I decided it’s ok to be A LITTLE BIT upset about it. So come Dredge up a little magic or mischief with Anna's Atrocities today!

My name is Antonietta and Anna and Toni Epifani, sometimes Mom—born somewhere in New Jersey and raised all around Houston, Texas to an insomniac Scorpio Puerto Rican mom and an entrepreneur Gemini Italian dad along with a couple of sisters of which I am the youngest and loudest.

I failed at many things along the way, including my one and only. Now — My hell is my happy place where I am free to invoke recollections and live in peace.

Talk to me. I dare you.

come dredge with me

Cease. Exist. Seize.

Seize Existence. 

Death is my closest companion.

She is my Lover and Guardian Angel.

She only desires the Now and reflects soulfully on so much YES of our yesterdays pass. 

She treasures my every Dredge down memory lane; when I beg for her touch.

I do love to Dredge.

Come Dredge with me.

I Dredge up and down and all around in Forests and Wild Flower Fields.

I DREDGE.  

I Dredge alone or with you.

Apart and Together.

I chase butterflies and misery.

Past welcomes my Dredgefulness, never contritely.

Present never met anyone like me.

My desire to Dredge is adored.

They do not shun me.

Past cherishes Misery with me; with Present. 

Death whispers to Past, Present and me - and Yes, even you who are reading this now

“Live well so you may die well.

All of this and None of this Matters.”

Her by: Anna

Rite of EXORCISM

He taunts her demons with finite silence.

Her demons Tempestuously spit venom in pure resistance.

She caresses her demons — darkly MUSing —

“my reaction is the only thing I have control over, after all”.

her demons gift her INfinite silence in Exile

—Together forever—

they Roar and Howl in Laughter

at the joke

that is control.

Him by: Anna

Women Against Other Women

I see you.

I shine my dark light on Women Against Other Women.

I haunt those sowing discord in place of harmony.

I stalk across all distances of time and space.

It's not our place to be cruel or mean.

We are mothers and sisters and daughters.

We are God mothers and Step mothers and Grand and Great mothers.

We are true life and true death.

We are true harmony and true hate.

We are Sacred teachers.

We are Here to Elucidate.

Come closer and let me embrace you with love as a friend or defeated enemy.

Indifference is not an option.

Neutrality is unwanted.

Don't be a Woman Against Other Women.

Not in Word, Action or Inaction.

Or I will come for you and we will be friends or enemies.

I will be all the happier with either, neither and nothing.

I did not find peace in my life.

Instead, I fabricate it by shining my dark light on you.

I rebuke those fostering hate.

I see you and I am coming for you.

With Love — I am coming for my Peace.

With Love — I'm coming for you all.

Be at peace knowing the truth will set us free.

If this feels uncomfortable to you, know that as your first clue you have a lesson to learn here.

Now, please do stand down and be quiet.

Class has begun.

A TRINITY OF WILD VIOLETS

One bloom chooses to look down and away in perpetuity.

In doing so misses every change and triumph around him.

The other two blooms seek out warmth.

In doing so drift away from one another.

One bloom chooses not see or act.

One bloom chooses not to speak or act.

One bloom chooses to see + speak + act.

A Trinity of Wild Violence, indeed.

Commodus

Our Child.

Strong willed.

Tell Our Child.

Tell The Truth.

Come; Meet Our Child.

Have no Fear; It's not a Trap.

Embrace Our Child.

Be a Father to Our First Born.

Fate Warns, "Narcissus Will Love Our Child.

In 20 years time, She will request your Embrace.”

A Moment; A Promise.

A Gift saves Our Eldest From Her Love.

Will you do this?

Will Pride stand beside you for this Unshareable?

Fate Tests, "Will you stand alone?

Or Will you keep Pride between you and your Promise?"

Silence; He considers.

Fate knowingly smiles darkly; He chose Pride.

He chose Fate's Will.

Sheer Will.

Commodus, Come.

Embrace your Father as a Gift.

Reveal Our Bitterness.

Show Your Father Our Life.

Welcome Peace Disrupter; Welcome Forgotten Fate.

Welcome ALL to what you’ve missed Dealing With For A Very Long Time.

-Yes, even You who are reading this Now-

A short story about my voodoo doll

Red lips

Short shorts

Cute wedges

Mamacita hides her blackened purposeless gnarled soul in My Voodoo Doll

My voodoo doll speaks when I say speak

She dances when I say dance

Vindictive and Pushy like Me, her Maker

Loudly saying Nothing

Easy to Manipulate

Palters all about Peace, desperately

My voodoo doll pretend marries

pretend fathers, pathetically

My voodoo doll barely exists on her own

As sure as Death is my Guardian Angel and Lover

Delusional and Radically Transparent

True

My voodoo doll is a lover of broken promises

She will not find what she loves here, though

There is only Truth On Fire

There is only All The Time In The World

Red lips

Short shorts

Cute wedges

Lashes out when I say

Accepts uncovered lies when I say

Cruel and Mean like Me, her Maker

Unnecessary to the plot of My story

My little tiny insignificant voodoo doll would make the same sacrifices to live this pretend life with pretend peace

Just like Me, her Maker

Pathetic and Desperate, indeed

"You seriously are the most pathetic piece of shit I have ever encountered. Like seriously you need professional help. It just really makes you look so pathetic and desperate. It's been almost 20 years. If not more since you've been with Billy and you are still dredging up the past. That is really a sorry excuse for a human being. What kind of mother are you? You must've not been a good one for your daughter to not even want a conversation with you anymore and put a restraining order against you. Give it up and leave it alone if not for yourself for your daughter so she can have some type of life since you obviously lack a lot in your own personal life.", Mrs. Wife, who has never met me except when she interfered successfully with our scheduled visit after I told her very nicely her place is beside him not between us and she is involving herself prematurely with our kid. 2 gifts. I also did not get out of the car when vexed with this interference, a third gift. Dad did not cancel "date night" to visit with our kid after not seeing each other for 3 years even though he pinky promised he would see her soon. He did not even hug the kid. He called and listened to a 10 year old ask to talk to her dad "just them". He listened to her say she was happy for him that he has a new family. Pure Innocence. He said no and we drove back to Austin from the Edwards Marquee. My final gift......

"You seriously are the most pathetic piece of shit I have ever encountered. Like seriously you need professional help. It just really makes you look so pathetic and desperate. It's been almost 20 years. If not more since you've been with Billy and you are still dredging up the past. That is really a sorry excuse for a human being. What kind of mother are you? You must've not been a good one for your daughter to not even want a conversation with you anymore and put a restraining order against you. Give it up and leave it alone if not for yourself for your daughter so she can have some type of life since you obviously lack a lot in your own personal life.", Mrs. Wife who has never met me except the time she interfered successfully with our scheduled visit 07/2014 AFTER I told her to please give our 10 year kid space with her dad alone. AFTER I told her nicely. 2 gifts. I did not get out of the car, a third gift, and Billy did not cancel "date night" to meet with our kid AFTER not seeing each other for 3 years AFTER he pinky promised he would see her soon. He did not even hug the kid. He called and listened to a 10 year old kid ask to talk to her dad just them since she did not want to meet anyone new. He listened to her say she was happy for him that he has a new family. Pure Innocence. He said no and we drove back to Austin from the Edwards Marquee. My final gift.

"You seriously are the most pathetic piece of shit I have ever encountered. Like seriously you need professional help. It just really makes you look so pathetic and desperate. It's been almost 20 years. If not more since you've been with Billy and you are still dredging up the past. That is really a sorry excuse for a human being. What kind of mother are you? You must've not been a good one for your daughter to not even want a conversation with you anymore and put a restraining order against you. Give it up and leave it alone if not for yourself for your daughter so she can have some type of life since you obviously lack a lot in your own personal life.", Mrs. Wife, who has never met me except when she interfered successfully with our scheduled visit after I told her very nicely her place is beside him not between us and she is involving herself prematurely with our kid. 2 gifts. I also did not get out of the car when vexed with this interference, a third gift. Dad did not cancel "date night" to visit with our kid after not seeing each other for 3 years even though he pinky promised he would see her soon. He did not even hug the kid. He called and listened to a 10 year old ask to talk to her dad "just them". He listened to her say she was happy for him that he has a new family. Pure Innocence. He said no and we drove back to Austin from the Edwards Marquee. My final gift...... "You seriously are the most pathetic piece of shit I have ever encountered. Like seriously you need professional help. It just really makes you look so pathetic and desperate. It's been almost 20 years. If not more since you've been with Billy and you are still dredging up the past. That is really a sorry excuse for a human being. What kind of mother are you? You must've not been a good one for your daughter to not even want a conversation with you anymore and put a restraining order against you. Give it up and leave it alone if not for yourself for your daughter so she can have some type of life since you obviously lack a lot in your own personal life.", Mrs. Wife who has never met me except the time she interfered successfully with our scheduled visit 07/2014 AFTER I told her to please give our 10 year kid space with her dad alone. AFTER I told her nicely. 2 gifts. I did not get out of the car, a third gift, and Billy did not cancel "date night" to meet with our kid AFTER not seeing each other for 3 years AFTER he pinky promised he would see her soon. He did not even hug the kid. He called and listened to a 10 year old kid ask to talk to her dad just them since she did not want to meet anyone new. He listened to her say she was happy for him that he has a new family. Pure Innocence. He said no and we drove back to Austin from the Edwards Marquee. My final gift.

a glow in darkness

I feel warmth.

I am captivated by Darkness. 

Hopeful; he shows Me his Heart.

Broken, Ripped and Torn. 

He mended his Heart Alone over and over. 

He offers his Warmth to me; to Share with only Me.  

I caress many Cuts; So, so many Scars. 

I yearn to obliterate his Hurts.  

I crave destroying his Torments. 

I am Destruction.  

My Love Kills and Hurts. 

His warmth melts into my skin.  

I feel the warmth turn to stone.

 

I am so cold. 

I am Destruction.

A short story about Her

Silhouette.

Her arms gracefully spread to the heavens clasping fingers above her head.

Her curves call out to the world to be held, forever.

She needs warmth, forever. 

He feels warmth fill his vein.

He follows her into sunlight. He calls to her.

He reaches out to touch her. They breathe each other in completely;

In their Bed; In their Home; In their Peace. 

She cries, he yells. He cries, she yells.

They trash her. She must be trash. 

He still feels the warmth in his vein though;

Or was that his heart?

He reminds her of his sunlight.

He reminds her no one else will warm her.

It is dark, she needs the sun. 

Warrior. Maternal. Trash.

He promises more Sunlight; She traps his Sunlight within her.

Innocence from Her Hurt and His Hate

She finds her heart so full to celebrate the news of a baby girl! “Is there anyone here with you?!” 

No. 

She wonders; deeply concerned – Does my baby feel when I am sad?

—“When suffering, your baby experiences those feelings as well. You must understand your emotional state affects your baby's development for a significant portion of their life. Depression is a serious, but treatable, condition that can have serious impacts on your unborn baby. We are putting you on bed rest. We are scheduling you to be induced. Your blood pressure is too high. Your body is no longer safe for her. This is serious. Is there anyone here with you?”— 

No. 

A fatherless angel of kindness and strong will is born.

A Heart within a Heart;

Delight and Darkness

Many years later, He asks her, “Are you ok?”

She sobs back, “NO! Why?!?” 

He replies softly, “Because I don't want nothin’ bad to happen to you.” 

Her heart of stone softens

Just Enough

For Him To Slip

His Poisoned Dagger Gently Into Her Back

Piercing Her Broken Heart.

She hears his breath on the line, unlearning the feel of it on the back of her neck when it was Love and Protection.  

She hears the sparkle in his eyes once adored.

Then, he twists. 

He promises more Hate.

Finally, He Keeps His Word. 

She Dies; Released from Hell. She Lives.

A short story about ME

There is always an adaptive declaration abstracting me.

Yes.

An a d a m to my eve of insanities.

Like all bruised women whose break with REALITY begins spiraling through deprivations.

His strong shoulders and chest to lay on are not welcome to me.

When and where my tears remained unwept -- without even any effort.

That Present is lost to me.

For Nothing. For Never.

Only Past and Future dare remain this deeply in Darkness with me.

They are, after all, consistently more reckless than cautious Present.

“I want you tell me a story.

I’m sure you’ll remember.”

- Eric Draven, Lead Singer, Hangman’s Joke.

“Are you not entertained?!

Is this not why you are here?!”

- Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And he will have have his vengeance, in this life or the next.

A poem about him

Wind gently caresses darkness on his journey

He didn't know his touch awakened a forgotten shade of dense obsidian

A caress of gratification delights each of her senses

She wants more

A welcome distraction from her melancholy and vengeance

Wind ignites an ember within her

He wants more

She must look away while his talents display so she doesn't fall in or up

Wind is suffocated by so deep a Shade consuming his balanced breeze

She must remain on her journey deeply in Darkness

Wind offers his lovely grin and wink as a token to delight in

She feels innocent and playful with him--she is not innocent though

His journey pulls him away; he will not linger here where it is so dark

Not before he caresses her hips

He is always so warm

Not before he warms her lips

She is always so warm

She wants more

He said no more

Here

HERE to share in passions around growth through Darkness while dodging the miserables.

HERE to find that light in the Darkness—just not too much light. Keep it a little bit dark, please and thank you—

HERE to slink back again from the depths of my hell.

HERE to trudge epically through, full of doubt, a smidge of rage craze and a spritz of faithful Hope, while my organs and muscles casually swirl my blood and guts throughout; like it’s all going to be ok.

HERE’s to just another Wednesday

V VIII MMXXIV

on a journey finding joy and laughter in the Mundane and Powerful

Escapism

intimate pain

cerebral world

revenge justice

happy endings

historical art

people sharing

coping mechanism

familia


Verbosity

Vindictive 

Vexing

Vivacious 

Volume

Voluptuous 

Vixen

Vortex 

Verify 

Ventana

Viewpoint 

Video

Viva

Volunteer   

Vilify               

Credible

Curves

Cut

Curt

Cure

Careless

Can

Can't

Craft 

Center

Certain

Could 

Consequence

Cold

Condemned

Forgiveness. Permission. 

Same. Difference.

Patriarch

Protector

Pusher

Puncher

Pass

Problem

Past

Pretty 

Paralogiser

Perfect

Perfect

Pet

Parvanimity

Police

Pretender

Publisher

Put down

Punk 

Please

Panderer

Piece

Phone

Point 

Post

Prop

Pray

Pronouncer

Promise

Prove

Purgatory

Permission. Forgiveness. 

Difference. Same.

freedom

Psyche Crushed; Sweet Annihilation

No truths binding to anything

Is this freedom?

All thoughts; All actions; All the time

Love and Hate

Want and Don't

Every one and No one

Change for No reason

Change for Any reason

No rules rule this Life

Freedom is Success

Living is Remembering

Freedom is This

Inspiring quotes

Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you want to watch out for because you can never predict when they are going to do something incredibly...stupid.

— Captain Jack Sparrow, Filthy Pirate

“I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.” 

— Geronimo, Father and husband of an entire murdered family

“Can you just not?!?!?!?”

— The Kid aka AGEH, Independent Thinker, Self Trained Jedi

“You should probably stop breathing.”

— A follower’s excerpt from my voicemail. It was clarified, they did not mean for me to do anything “crazy”. It just means they do not like me.

"Under pressure we don't rise to the occasion, but rather sink to the level of our training. Remember, The only easy day was yesterday”

— American Navy Seals, How we PREPARE TODAY will determine how we PERFORM TOMORROW

“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“You miss every shot you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky”

— Michael Scott, World’s Best Boss

“Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”

— Squarespace Website Builder Quote