Emus Book Raid – excerpt

This is an excerpt from Snakes and Ladders. Book is currently in development with Affirm Press. Follow Angela J Williams on Facebook for more excerpts and news on publication. 44 – Emus Book Raid On Tuesday morning, forty-four days in, the screws are late coming to unlock us. As the time for people to start reporting for […]

To Be Continued; A Comic about suicide

So this is what I’ve been doing with my mind and fingers instead of talking or writing. I’m kinda loving it as a new way of communicating. This is my new webcomic To Be Continued. In May 2018, I went through twelve sessions of unilateral ultra brief electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT. They shot electricity through […]

Suicide dreams

Content warning: suicide Waking up after suicide dreams is hard. My body is waking up but my mind is still there, in the right before mindset. My mind wakes up questioning why I’m still alive, what went wrong. My suicide dreams are Inception-like. Each death slides me into another life where I’m wanting to die, […]

Now/then – characters – Excerpt

This is an excerpt from Snakes and Ladders. Book is currently in development with Affirm Press. Follow Angela J Williams on Facebook for more excerpts and news on publication. Now / then – Characters You probably want to know about the person getting arrested, so let’s take a minute out with the here and now me to […]

Stripping Time – Excerpt

Strip searches are something like pantomime undressing, lots of big slow movements – and nothing at all like erotic stripping.

Thesis Results

These are the voices I need to be listening to right now. TEC Resolution FOR NET

Draft: ECT Brain thinks about my relationship with ‘exercise’

(Yes, roller derby peeps, perfect timing for TGSS. Non-derby peeps, forgive my draft. Links and pics soon.) Twenty-four hours ago I would have scrolled past this topic, however just yesterday I had some very relevant realisations. This one comes with a content warning re: invasive psychiatry Context: I am 41 years old, have complex PTSD […]

Turning ‘trauma’ into ‘armour’: part 1 – the fungus

Content warning: this post discusses suicide and Electro Convulsive Therapy. Structure warning: I am writing with my editing and self-censorship blinkers off – paragraphs, sentences and arguments may be imprecise. Context I started this post just after I was released from a five week psychiatric admission that included 12 sessions of Electro Convulsive Therapy. It […]