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The Tangled Web

3/11/2016

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​   Have you ever walked into a spider web? On occasion, I have had the displeasure of walking out of my front or side door and straight into a spider's web. The experience is frankly, gross. Not only do I suffer from arachnophobia, but the feeling of getting tangled in something sticky and foreign when you least expect it is disturbing. The more you fight a web, the more you find yourself stuck and entangled. After you get the web off of you, you then have to worry about whether its weaver is now in your hair and clothes; now there is a lovely consequence to think about.
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   The point of a spider's web is , of course, to ensnare other insects or creatures so that the spider can eat. So when people write about getting caught "in a web of lies," it is very appropriate. When people tell lies, they usually come back to bite them. Often, once a lie is told, there must be more and more lies created to support the first lie and so on.; thus, the web of lies gets larger and when someone gets caught in that web, they become unavoidably entangled. And what about that spider, while you are busy fighting the web, she may have you at her mercy; you won't even see the bite coming.

   Let's just face it: there is no such thing as a little lie. Even if you tell a "white lie" to keep someone from getting hurt, it usually hurts them more when the truth comes out and they find out you weren't honest in the first place.


~Danielle G.


White Lies

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Paralyzed and immovable
In the abstruse tapestry
Of a mangled web.
 
I can feel the focus
Of my life-force rotten
With the shadows of deceit--
 
Crumbling within my  soul
Like a montain of dust
Scattered by the wind.
 
And there she sits in the darkness
Harmless--with fangs of pain
Waiting to bite again and again.
 
Drawing essence of ruby wine
Slowly becoming a sea
The white widow's venom
Infects and consumes me.

~Danielle Grace

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    Danielle Grace was born in Washington, D.C. In addition to being a novelist, Grace is also a poet and entrepreneur. Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and resides in the state of Maryland with her family. As the child of a federal police officer and a Speech Pathologist in the public school systems of Washington, D.C. and the outer suburbs of Maryland, she was raised to be fair in her treatment of all people and inquisitive about the world around her.

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