My Inner Voice Told Me

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This is based on a true story. It actually happened to my sister when I was away at college and she was frequenting the dance club in my home town. there is a lot more to the story, but this is the gist of it. I am speaking as my sister in this poem.

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There was a D.J. at a club where I would go some weekend nights and dance till late. Not gorgeous, but an entertaining guy, he called me up and asked me on a date. It took me by surprise. I thought why not? Something inside me did not feel right though, My inner voice told me perhaps I ought to just stay home. Doubt grew. I dared not go. A few days later, on the news I heard that guy who’d called me was the suspect in a murder that had recently occurred. To think that with that man I could have been and stabbed to death like his victim was! Heed your inner voice if it gives you pause.

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Oliver Mckeithan

Date: 6/12/2025 4:45:00 AM

Whew Andrea. Good thing she heeded her inner voice. Scary. I used to work with a woman whose cousin was murdered by Ted Bundy. Excellent sonnet for the story.

Duke Beaufort

Date: 6/12/2025 4:30:00 AM

Andrea, very interesting story indeed. We do get feelings about people. Good that sis was able to trust her own. Thanks for sharing this one. It may help some of us to consider our feelings and what they may be telling us. Smiles!!

Evelyn Judy Buehler

Date: 6/11/2025 6:45:00 PM

I'm glad your sister followed that gut feeling, and wasn't harmed. I think the inner voice is actually the subconscious, and that the subconscious is more observant.

Paige Hind

Date: 6/11/2025 5:45:00 PM

Wow, thank God. Sometimes we must listen to that inner voice, you are so right.

Jay Narain

Date: 6/11/2025 10:42:00 AM

Sometimes inner voices help. You should not date anyone without a background check. School friends are excluded.

Paul Bell

Date: 6/11/2025 7:38:00 AM

Always listen to your inner self, it's what it's there for.

Tom Woody

Date: 6/11/2025 7:13:00 AM

GAAA! She escaped that one by the skin of her teeth. I actually had a Bible study going for a while who turned out to be a serial killer! True story. His name was Russell Elwood you can look him up

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 6/11/2025 8:32:00 AM

I changed the story a bit. One of my other sisters had actually gone to a state park with him a few weeks earlier where he showed her his collection of knives and she thought it was creepy. then this same guy asked my other sister out, so she got the bad feeling and said no. Both of them could have been killed. I'll have to look up Russell Elwood. We just can never knew who these creeps are.