Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

   — Winston Churchill

"Big Bird Is My Boyfriend" from Oh My Seven

"I Am" from Patches and Paws

"Memoirs of a Rubber Duck (2) and an Apology" from Mo "Mad Dog" Stoneskin

"I continued my 2009 tradition..." from Blogging Like I've Never Blogged Before

"Get a Sense of Humor, Grandpa" from Fuck You, Penguin

"Do Not Leave Me in the Abyss" from Gwen Alison Wonderland

"This Is EXACTLY What It's Like to Be Me" from Me and Whatnot

"Godzilla, Lord of the Dance" from Tenth Muse

"Having Babies Is Still a Breeder's World" from John and Steve Are Having a Baby

"Garbage Man" from Only Slightly Literate

Trigger warning: this entry is about childhood sexual abuse:
"Brittany" from Violence Unsilenced

"These PSAs Are SO Gay" by Whit at MamaPop

"Lost in Love and I Don't Know Much" from And So She Blogs

"Cyber Terror" from Kate McLaughlin

"Isolation Tanked: My Time in a Sensory Deprivation Chamber" from Inebriated Discourse

"May Bloggery Thrive!" from Dick Jones' Patteran Pages

"Depression-Era Dumpster Food" from Schmutzie.com

"The Only Secret" from Slouching Past 40

"Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" from Girlyshoes

"The Bondage Cardigan" from Skip's Acorn Treasury

"The Insomniac Heart" from The Queen of Hyperbole

Please come back and share good writing with us over the coming week to be featured on the next Five Star Friday. If you have read a really good piece on someone else's weblog, submit it by Thursday at midnight CST to have it featured on Five Star Friday.

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