Author Archives: cearostone

Lyra Stone brings a soothing but intellectual approach to topics about self-care and recovery after trauma. She offers advice and tips for those looking for calm, spiritually-focused as well as scientifically-minded solutions to thriving after narcissistic abuse. Much of her topics deal with ways to move forward after leaving an abusive environment. Episode 1: Get onContinue reading “{ PODCAST }”

An exploration of topics that center around the experiences of leaving an abusive relationship. Delves into the issues surrounding rape, assault, and other forms of abuse. Talks about the confusion one often feels after escaping an intimate partner. Offers answers to questions about why victims will stay. Offers comfort for those recovering from narcissistic abuse.Continue reading “{ MEMOIRS }”

A list of short stories that follow the lives of different persons who go through forms of abuse. It offers a peek into how love can be exploited and what people do to recover and escape from the narcissistic persons who threaten their lives and their sanity. It gives hope for those looking for salvation.Continue reading “{ SHORT STORIES }”

A memory came into my head when I awoke this morning after battling a fever. When it broke, I felt a sudden release and relaxation and with it came the image of a cheap and small magnet of a cat, with its fur puffed up, looking grumpy under freshly fallen snow. The caption read somethingContinue reading “A Day in the Life”

“I wish her well,” he declared in a song with the magnanimous attention to his words that made him feel, no doubt, like a generous king. I chew my lips and choke miserably on my silence. I want to speak so loudly. I want to throw things, tear at things, cry out from the sheerContinue reading “{ WISH YOU WELL }”

SHORT-STORY | SELF-MADE MAN Gene felt old. He never saw himself aging and yet here he was– Thirty-six years old. Thirty-six was a number that didn’t sit well with him, and he was noticing more often how eyes glanced over him when they used to settle. Young women he was finding harder to captivate. GeneContinue reading “SELF-MADE MAN”

May and Lynn could have been sisters. Most people assumed they were. They were two of only a handful of Asian students at their school and had been inseparable since Grade School. However, despite their closeness, their personalities were in many ways opposite to one another. Lynn was confident and competitive. She was athletic andContinue reading “SISTERHOOD”

You remember that game you used to play? Where you’d climb on top of me and try to force my legs apart? I’d tell you to stop. I’d tell you I didn’t want it. You’d push your hands between my knees and try harder. ‘I mean it,’ I’d tell you. You remember how you’d grin?Continue reading “{ GAMES }”

John liked to think of himself as a forgiving man. A patient man. He had a first row seat to what bitterness and resentment can do to a person, and not just to their minds, but to their bodies as well. His mother suffered through terrible migraines. They seared into her brain like an angryContinue reading “{ THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT DEIRDRE }”

I could subsist off of very little love, and I believed that to be a virtue and a strength. I came from a family that spoke a lot of words with no meaning behind them. Just a nervous buzzing surrounding the issue– that of an aching loneliness and a failure to connect. Each and everyContinue reading “{ SUBSISTING }”