Dice and The P.O.E.T Club...

Dice is about a 10 year old boy Shayne and his mother Loralie.  When Shayne is diagnosed with terminal cancer his mother struggles with how to help him with the anger, frustration, and sadness that comes with living life and learning about death.  She is drawn to an old wooden box from her past with no intructions but some old photos, an old pair of dice, and an old note with the words let fate be your guide... 

The P.O.E.T Club is about an woman named Freda who's youngest child is diagnosed with Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy.  With the help of her new best friend and kindled spirit Rita She creates a club to deal with her anger.  Hince The P.O.E.T Club- Pissed Off Every Tuesday...

These stories can be found:

dice and poet club

Seven reasons Why Joining the P.O.E.T Club is a good idea...

1.  Because being Pissed Off Every Tuesday gives us an excuse to be allowed to be pissed off...
2.  Because when you bottle up emotions it leads to the term "going postal"
3.  Because we could've called it the P.O.E.D club, but it sounds much classier to have the P.O.E.T club...
4.  Because some days just suck and you need to bitch about it...
5.  Because some times your just pissed off at being pissed off...
6.  Because it feels so good to get it all off your chest some times, because when you carry too much you tend to fall over...
7.  Because it's easier to complain if everybody else is complaining...

Amanda J. Adams

Okay so I started writing for the same reason that everyone does....  I have a lot to say.  I've always been opinionated.  I've lived through alot in my life.  To find common ground it's important to know where I've been in my life.  I don't believe in feeling sorry for myself and I would never change the past.  Here it goes.... 

When I was 16, I drank so much when I was sixteen that I don't remember an entire summer of my life. 

My changing moment was finding my best friend/ cousin curled over the toilet passed out and barely breathing from alchol poisoning. 

I lost my virginity to a man that was 7 years older than I was when I was seventeen.  We began a relationship in which he became abusive not only physically, but emotionally, and sexually as well.  I found out I was pregnant after having him arrested for domestic violance in which he knocked down the door and if my best friend and one of my guy friends hadn't been there he would've killed me with the knife he had in his back pocket... 

After I had an abortion I tried to "sleep" for a while by taking a mix of antidepressants, advil, and alchol...  Oviously it didn't work.... 

I then dropped out of high school without telling my parents.  Now was make or break time.  I met my now husband at adult education. 

I became pregnant at 19 with his child.  I knew I needed to become the kind of mother that would always make everything okay for this child like my mother did for me. 

I graduated high school, got married, bought a house, went to college, and wrote two books.  One book is called Dice.  The second is called The P.O.E.T Club which stands for pissed off every tuesday.  My greatest goal now in life is to show people out their that life is what you make it...

Both Dice and The P.O.E.T Club can be found at dice and poet club