Love, Sex and Money

The world is changing, fast and economic insecurity is changing how women make money. Some people think Donald Trump won due to economic insecurity and a huge social meltdown.Wages are low, work is precarious, and many people (particularly the young) have a lot of debt to pay off. This change Read more

Madeline Foster

Madeline Foster is a multidisciplinary writer and marketer whose greatest expertise lies in the ability to create thought-provoking and often controversial content. She has a strong personal following and has often been quoted as saying, "I love, no need for coffee." She works for Tfonia and lives in Montreal. "​I know things, therefore I write things.”

Sex with Strangers

It was a dare, oh yes it was I was young crazy and in lust. You were dangerous. The right kind of madness had arrived just in time. We were in the city, the one where anything goes where no one tells private secrets laced with lies. Your lack of Read more

Julie Anderson

Julie Anderson is the Creator and Publisher of Feminine Collective. Julie was inspired to create this safe place for women to share their secrets, desires, triumphs and pain as the antithesis of what mainstream media offers women today. In her column Pursuit of Perfection, she explores the importance of rectifying the balance of inner and outer beauty through essays, poems and articles on self-esteem, shame, family, and self- acceptance.

I Dreamed of You Last Night

You found your way into my dreams again You are never unwanted You are such a welcomed change from nightmares that haunt me over and over again of my past husband leaving me in various creative ways. Of all places to be we were in Reno somewhere we both once Read more

Dori Owen

Dori Owen is a storyteller, writing from small town Arizona, after living a few decades in California as an LA Wild Child, with a brief stop in Reno. She settled into grownup life as a project manager, collecting an MBA and a few husbands along the way. She is a shown artist and her favorite pastime is upcycling old furniture and decor she finds from thrift stores. She lives with the cat who came to visit but stayed. The love of her life is her grown son who lives in Portland, Oregon. Her essays and poems have been published in RAW&UNFILTERED VOL I, StigmaFighters Vol 2, and Love Notes From Humanity. Her blogs have been featured on The Lithium Chronicles, Open Thought Vortex, Sudden Denouement, and The Mighty.

Special, Baby

I liked his calloused hands running over the smooth skin on my back, us standing there, me in my thong that he bought for me and a pair of flats, he shirtless in his boxer briefs. He loved flats, loved to see my feet in them, to marvel at them. Read more

Bobby Wilson

My name is Bobby Wilson. I live in China where I teach English and write. My writings have appeared in the Longridge Review, Unlikely Stories, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. I spend most of my time reading, writing, studying languages and cooking. I’m married and own a cat.

The Heart Never Grows Old

What is it with age? When we’re very young all we want to do is grow old in a hurry, then when we’re teenagers we act like toddlers. As do many seniors. The big crunch comes in middle age and stems from the looming terror of growing old, but it Read more

Susan P. Blevins

Susan P. Blevins was born in England, and escaped at age twenty on her life quest, moving first to Italy for 26 years, and then to the USA, where she now lives. The older she gets, the more passionately involved she becomes in the world, and the more she wants to make a personal contribution. She believes that we can all make a difference, one hug, and one smile at a time.

Seductress of Sin

A heretic grin interlaced with longing Ferocious need danced behind barren eyes Her poise Thunder clouds and electricity, lead me to believe in her gospel of sin Where it not for her blithe commentary fornicating in the sea under stars against incidental walls I might not have chosen this bestial Read more

Julie Anderson

Julie Anderson is the Creator and Publisher of Feminine Collective. Julie was inspired to create this safe place for women to share their secrets, desires, triumphs and pain as the antithesis of what mainstream media offers women today. In her column Pursuit of Perfection, she explores the importance of rectifying the balance of inner and outer beauty through essays, poems and articles on self-esteem, shame, family, and self- acceptance.

My Addiction

You are my addiction, so sweet and tempting, like the aroma of my favorite meal, that I cannot resist, or taste. My path to self-destruction. Like an alcoholic doomed to die, yet, he continues on drinking, knowing that it’s death in itself. My very personal alluring hell, that I cannot Read more

F.K. Jadoon

F.K. Jadoon is a girl who likes to dream and her dream is to become a recognised writer someday. She has recently done her Honours in English Literature. She's an avid reader of literature and is most likely to be found with her nose in one book or another or just writing away in her little diary which is always kept close to her heart. In a society where creative writing is mostly not considered a serious enough field, she has battled her way through a fair amount of grumbling, disappointment and being taken lightly. And yet, she has never let her inner fire die as she keeps on pouring the gasoline of passion and determination on the dying embers of her inner voice. She has succeeded so far and hopes to do so in future.

Absolution

Emotions methylated, Her dreams syncopated. Quietened by the slumber, A virgin flame burns. And then at once she understood… Through the veil of denial she had betrayed herself. Beyond the reaches of her sanity, Drowned out the girl she once knew. Awakened from the melancholy madness, A constant whisper delivers Read more

Clementine Heath

Clementine Heath is an actress of stage and screen and a creative developer/writer for film and TV. She was born in Sydney, Australia, and relocated to Los Angeles 7 years ago. She has been writing poetry and short stories since she was a young teenager and had some of her poems published anonymously. Clementine is currently developing several series for digital and cable networks, along with her feature film projects. 'Mistress Desire and the Lonely Flame' is Clementine's first adult poetry series - a collection of short poems to be released sequentially, exclusively for Feminine Collective.