The Making of the Tin Man and Me a serial by Kimberly Carson

This is the true-life story of a woman's personal struggle as she attempts to break through the shell of an emotionally unavailable man who has entered her life.

We Desire Love - More than anything else in this life we desire love. Above fame, fortune, security and even invincibility, we all want to be loved. And we will go to sometimes the most psychologically extreme lengths in order to attain it, or settle for the most emotionally barren situations in an attempt to preserve our image of it.

Nick - The fictionalized version of this true story is included in a full length manuscript titled, Hallowed Hearts. I have extracted the excerpts which include the story in order to present it in this ezine. The names and certain incidental facts were changed during the writing of the manuscript, but the essential theme of The Tin Man remains intact.

Wonderland - Wonderland. Part of Jesse hates this place and a part of her thrives on this place. Wonderland. I wonder if he's the one....I wonder if he's going to try anything tonight....I wonder if he'll like me...I wonder if our lifestyles will mix...I wonder if I can stop wondering and just be...I wonder, wonder, wonder.

Hallowed Hearts - The fictionalized version of this true story is included in a full length manuscript titled, Hallowed Hearts. I have extracted the excerpts which include the story in order to present it in this ezine. The names and certain incidental facts were changed during the writing of the manuscript, but the essential theme of The Tin Man remains intact.

I will never get married again - I don't know. Enjoying the time we have together. I honestly don't know, Jesse. Look, you are as close as I've ever come to a soul mate, but it's a bit premature to be having this discussion, don't you think?

She wanted to escape - Jesse drove him in a stunned silence. She didn't want to think, didn't want to cry and didn't want to be. She wanted to escape, run away, find a way out of here, now. She wanted to empty herself of him, get rid of her knowingness of him, detach from her thoughts of him, break free from the place in her heart that felt bound to him. She wanted it to be the way it was before him. She didn't want to smell him on her clothes, or taste him on her lips. She wanted to purge the memory of how it felt to be wrapped in his arms. She wanted to erase from her mind all their conversations and delete every reminder of him to come.

There are women who run with wolves - Obsession is the result of lassoing our emotional heart strings around the bucking and unwilling object of our desire. It doesn't seem to deter us much that this person is unwilling, for what we interpret this as is a need for our love and only our love.