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Emily Cradduck
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An Open Book With Fine Print

I sit here with five open documents. Four unfinished pieces, each with a direction I can’t seem to find. And this one. What is it that I’m trying to say? What is it that I want to say? If I knew, maybe I’d say it. What power do words hold…

Writers Block

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An Open Book With Fine Print
An Open Book With Fine Print
Writers Block

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Apr 15

i wish you well

a Gwyneth Paltrow inspired poem —

Poetry

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i wish you well
i wish you well
Poetry

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Mar 26

i was not your lover

a poem on lost love — i think i would cry the day your tiktoks stopped showing up on my for you page. no matter if you want me to or not, i simply can’t forget about your…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Mar 16

three years without

a poem on grief and sobriety — yesterday marked three years since your memorial at the club; the one you took josh and me to as kids on saturdays, dadurdays, bradurdays, more than two decades ago. the waitress was there. she remembered me, she said, and how she brought me sodas, ginger ale, i think, when she brought you your beers…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Aug 9, 2022

Brady Grey

The grief of losing a pet He was from Jamestown…or Chautauqua…or maybe even Celoron like Lucille Ball. All I know is he’d been one kitten too many for his first human, and dropped off at the animal shelter on Strunk Road in Jamestown, New York. One kitten too many originally…

Grief

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Brady Grey
Brady Grey
Grief

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Jan 6, 2022

Anxiety, Ammo, & Progress

A step toward turning fear into peace “Face. Accept. Float. Let time pass.” -Claire Weekes I’m having tension headaches again. Only now the pain that grips the crown of my head comes without warning. Like my anxiety, they’d become nearly non-existent. It was my racing mind that foreshadowed the throbbing of my temples. Stress is the…

Mental Health

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Anxiety, Ammo, & Progress
Anxiety, Ammo, & Progress
Mental Health

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Nov 22, 2021

Gravity

A Sunday afternoon stream of consciousness I can’t stop crying, just like I can’t write. I don’t know what this is I’m doing now. I’ve written next to nothing for damn near a year. I’m eating the rest of the Milky Way Midnight candy bar I got from the 7-Eleven…

Stream Of Consciousness

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Gravity
Gravity
Stream Of Consciousness

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Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

·Jun 29, 2021

A Reason

A poem inspired by a book — Eventually you get tired of playing the victim. In my situation, we were both. Both the predator, both the prey. And then there was my first love. But it was never him, it was the drugs, it was his childhood. It was her childhood. Couldn’t I love someone with a normal childhood? “She’s been working…

Poetry

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A Reason
A Reason
Poetry

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May 28, 2021

Friends

The One Where I Allow Myself to Feel — i felt heavy today — my heart, my soul. maybe it was the moon, or mercury. maybe it was that dream about my dad. whatever it was, it allowed my mind to slip into rumination. or maybe that was me who allowed it. but there it was. those words that…

Friends

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Friends
Friends
Friends

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Know Thyself, Heal Thyself

·May 18, 2021

June 12, 2018

A Yosemite Falls hike, and a pain that doesn’t go away — The pain in my chest was something I wish upon no one on this particular day. I forced myself on a hike anyway — or because of — hoping the strenuous climb would dismantle the heartbreak. Yet I felt it all along. Throughout my dehydration in the scorching heat, the…

Nature

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June 12, 2018
June 12, 2018
Nature

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Emily Cradduck

Emily Cradduck

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a double water sign with an anxiety disorder + author of To Be Her Girl. emilycradduck.com

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