Back in February, I joined an Odyssey community. Unfortunately, my editor decided to single-handedly eliminate me from the Odyssey team in less than eight days and without a logical reason as to why. But I think it was because I was text-talking about cat emojis.

And I believe this made my very nervous editor decide I had to be STRAIGHT UP CRAZY because she INSTANTLY killed my feed, my profile, and all possibilities to continue writing with an Odyssey community. Honestly, I think she was afraid of me – or that the weird, quirky, sarcastic bits of me would reflect back on her so she simply got rid of me. But dang if that isn't DISCRIMINATION!! Too bad I can't get anyone at Odyssey to agree with that summary or even respond to my email inquiries as to how this instantaneous, Saturday night removal of me came to be justifiable in the scheme of fairness and equality. Certainly, this sucks!

And it all begins to suck even more as time goes by and I'm continuously ignored! Obviously, all of it has scarred me with sickening, depressing feelings of unworthiness as I was deemed unfit for even this free writing opportunity. It's just unfair! Especially considering my Odyssey with the Odyssey doesn't end there. Nope! I was enticed to enter back in with an independent profile – after the killing of me in the community! Sure, I wanted the editor and the feedback, but again – it seems I'm the exception to every rule and worthy to be removed without reason.

However, as I decided to reenter Odyssey with an independent profile, Odyssey directed me to do this via their own beta testing platform. Again, I built everything, filled in my information, and posted the stories I had previously attempted to submit to my community before the cat emoji incident. I think it worked but the next time I came to log in, I had to do it by entering with Facebook, and that led to the technological death of my independent profile. Quite simply, it has been jacked up since February without any remedy – despite a handful of requests for Odyssey's assistance with their broken technology. Now, this frustrates me!

So, I've now been told to try Odyssey again, with specific instructions to use this other email address. Unfortunately, I don't think it's working either. And that's why I'm making this desperately dumb post. I'm simply attempting to see if I'm really with the Odyssey! Double-dang! And shame on me for thinking the Odyssey was really an "open, free to everybody" nonpaid, democratic website for writing stories. Obviously, this hasn't been true for me!