The ScreamBed Chronicles: The Last Days of Playas & Other Insecure Men
By Ari Meier
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This book is NOT a typical relationship book. It's in your face with real talk about love, cheating and respect. A common sense approach to something that's been made more complicated than necessary.
"It's time for women to see the BS behind the whole playa mentality and myth, it's NOT what many men portray it as."
The easy flowing essays range from Ari’s own past relationship stories to his interviewing women playas, while throwing in the message that playas are mostly living a big lie and they are mainly insecure guys desiring real love.
One reader called Ari's writings 'bold' while another called it 'non-egotistical' and 'real talk.'
Ari Meier
Ari's been the "three in one" artist, first starting out drawing anything he could see, to designing cars, architecture and painting surrealist and cubist art. He taught himself piano starting at age nine, later wrote songs, getting better at piano, forming bands and writing more songs, until he'd composed more than 400 songs. He started writing in his early teens, and wrote until he'd written more than 1,000 poems, a dozen short stories and two critically acclaimed books, one a natural health book and the other a book chronicling his past relationships and how he evolved from being a womanizer to being monogamous.
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The ScreamBed Chronicles - Ari Meier
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AMAZING! This book is a real page turner that gives an entertaining account and perspective on love, life, and relationships
. LaToya Gardner, Indianapolis, IN
I am a fan of The Screambed Chronicles. I love this book, from the personal essay testimonials to the blow-your-mind erotic poetry; TSC hits all the right notes. Trust me when I say that you will read this book from cover to cover as soon as you pick it up because you never know what the author is going to say next
. Arvell Poe, Actor, Vinings, GA
This book shows the personal growth of a
player evolving into a real man. It is sprinkled with poetry and lyrics and the essays are informative and delightful. I finished this book within a day because I could not put it down. Every woman and man should read this.
Violette Meier, Author of Angel Crush, The First Chronicle of Zayashariya: OUT OF NIGHT & Violette Ardor: A Volume of Poetry & This Sickness We Call Love: Poems of Love, Lust & Lamentation- Atlanta, GA
The ScreamBed Chronicles: The Last Days of Playas & Other Insecure Men
By Ari Meier
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. While all of the essays and incidents in this book are true, the names and personal characteristics of the individual(s) described have been changed in order to protect their privacy. Any resulting resemblance to other persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and unintentional.
You may contact Ari Meier at Viori Publishing at ari@vioripublishing.com
Copyright Ari Meier 2008-2013
Published by Viori Publishing at Smashwords
ISBN 9780988780545
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Dedications
I dedicate this book to all of the women and men that are in loving relationships.
Special thanks
To my late mom, Margaret Rose, thank you for your guidance, love and nurturing and for birthing more girls than boys; this helped cultivate my respect for women. I love you. I thank my late dad James Perry, you taught me how a real man provides for his family and I know that you are whispering great money making tips from the other side while I sleep. Love you. I thank my children, Kiera, Arman, Aura, Xoe, Zahyir and Ruah for bringing more love, patience and their teachings into my life. I love you.
To my sisters Evadne and Sheri, I learned how to be a woman liberator from growing up with you women, with me looking out for you and your best interests. I love you.
To the love of my life Violette, thank you for your great ideas, patience, and support. I love you googol times infinite. I thank my late grandmother, Violet Evans, my late aunts Sophia and Sarah. I saw firsthand, what makes a strong woman by your examples. Though you all were on different ends of the personality scale, you shared the commonality of strength with a mixture of feistiness, intelligence, and genuine love of people. Love you.
I thank my late grandfather, William Evans, who was my model and inspiration for how to treat women. I can still remember the days of you shaking and baking
chicken while sharing your knowledge about any and everything. Love you. I thank my Uncles Benny, Wink, and late uncle Brainerd. You all inspired me to be who I am and you showed me that real men cook, clean and actively raise children. Love you all.
I thank my late uncle, Yemi, who inspired, motivated, and elevated my consciousness in new directions, especially when it came to women.
Last, but not least, I thank the women who allowed me to tell their stories in the essay, When the Girls Go Out
. Though many of us have gone our separate ways, I am reminded of your invaluable input when women read this essay and they tell me that this is their favorite.
Preface
A few years back, I realized that sometime back, I did some fucked up shit. No, not some crazy criminal stuff, but you can call some of it crimes of the heart. I was an emotional pimp, a major liar and mind gamer. Thinking back on all this, I knew that I needed to respect women more. Though, I did respect women on a basic level, I started feeling bad about the wasted time and busted hearts, that were caused by my lower level of respect and genuine concern for their emotional state.
What was really going on inside of me? I soon realized that my game playing was really about me being insecure with my place in those relationships. I avoided completely handing my heart over to most of my girlfriends as I was afraid of getting hurt. I presented myself as the ultimate mystery man, a romantic slickster supreme. Nevertheless, I knew the truth, as my inside self really screamed ‘nervous mess’, and geek-boy. I only fooled others.
I decided to put some words down on paper, but I did not want to write a typical relationship book. I wanted to do something simple, something that could be read quickly. I wanted readers to get into my head and feel my emotional sickness masquerading as ‘sowing my wild oats’. The book had to expose some of my stories, as embarrassing and heart breaking as they were. The good thing was, I had already written essays dealing with relationships and about treating women better. This was good. This book is made up of short essays and poetry that can be shocking, erotic, spiritual and obscene (sometimes all in the same essay), but they are honest.
This book is like my apology to the women and girls (of course, my younger days!) that I hurt both consciously and unconsciously because of my playa ways. In addition, I respect and love everybody and it is not my intention to hurt anyone or make anyone feel less than a respectable human. However, I don’t care for any dudes that may hate this (if your actions are being exposed); and this book is NOT aimed at the many good brothas that are in great relationships. This is for the girls and women that are in crazy relationships who need a little light so that they can find the door and get the hell on.
Contents
Essay: Brotha 2 Brotha
Healing
Strong Sista
A Long Dae N the Next
Love Back Home
Essay: The Day I Was Shown Pussy Tree
Y R U Freaking?
Essay: Dog Brotha: One Day I Grew a Playa
Eye'll come with U
Contemplation of Marital Suicide
Writing Notes from the Edge of Bed
Love N the Air
Essay: Stop Flunking in Girls 101
The Pregnant Woman N the Tub
Kinda Love Thang
Your Rivers of Explosion Tunes: Respect of the Closed Legs
Y Eye Wasn't a Girl
Essay: Affairs, platonic relationships and other things
Sideways Eight
Underground Smiles: Fuel Midnight Desires
Can't Stay Away from Each Other
My Organic Girl
Essay: White Girls and Black Boys
RedFlower: 710 Secrets N the City
Hara Ffahg: I Wonder if U
The Best Ocean That I've Swam N
Organic Girl (the Hill Section Spoken of)
Essay: The PlayaSista Underground
I Thought U Were Mine
Empty Heart Woman
Essay: Loser: Get the Fuck on!
Essay: Brotha Ho Season
Essay: When the Girls Go Out
California Girl
What Do U Like?
I Tried Math, but the Banana Exploded anyway
Apple Juice
BrainDiary1: Danger and the Platonic People
BrainDiary2: The Continuation of the Connection
BrainDiary3: Conflict brewing a new coffee hell
BrainDiary4: Comeback of the Twista and the Eventual Elimination
BrainDiary5: The Future of Love, Massages and a Room on the 6th Floor
Potentials of Something Deeper Happening from Having Rose Petals Forming a Trail at the 6PM Door
Brotha 2 Brotha
Brotha 2 brotha
i’ve been meaning 2 tell u
about how u treat her
she’ll do anything 4 u
when u show your true heart
the words come from high
brotha make the start
the special feelings u can’t deny
brotha if u feel u got her
don’t stretch her feelings no more
if u betray her trust and love
she’ll just walk out the door
brotha 2 brotha
brotha 2 brotha
she’s been trying 2 say some words
u say she’s stupid and silly
or don’t know nothing at all
with these kinds of words
it’s a wonder
u have a love at all
brotha if u feel u got her
don’t stretch her feelings no more
if u betray her trust and love
she’ll just walk out the door
brotha 2 brotha
brotha treat her like a queen
brotha don’t b so mean
cause brotha she’s your baby
she’s a part of u
(and she’s thinking of u)
brotha, brotha treat her like a queen
brotha don’t be so mean
brotha (because she’s your baby
and she’s a part of u
she’s thinking of u)
song, Brotha 2 Brotha
Brotha 2 Brotha
"When brothas wake up to the love, essence and vast potential of