Trigger warning: This post contains an extensive discussion of cheating and divorce as well as several instances of strong language. I remember a time when I stood up for you, mother dear. You had worked long hours on a concrete floor, and your fibromyalgia had flared up so badly you had collapsed into bed. I... Continue Reading →
Hello, friend. It's been a long time, hasn't it? I can't offer many good excuses for my disappearance. The best I can come up with is simply that I ran out of things to say. My life was pretty smooth around the time I left, and that doesn't make for good material for a blog... Continue Reading →
Trigger Warning: This post contains an extensive discussion of anorexia and bulimia.
Dear small child I once was, Here are things I wish I could have told you and I didn't know how to say. I didn't know I would need to say. Here are things that maybe someone outside of us should have said and didn't. Here are things that I know now, and you are only just learning, small child.
Trigger Warning: This post contains an extensive discussion of abuse and a moderate discussion of anorexia, as well as a brief mention of pornography and rape.
Trigger Warning: Brief mention of suicide Recently the Netflix Original, "Thirteen Reasons Why" has garnered a lot of attention for its story of the reasons why Hannah Baker killed herself. Personally, I haven't watched the series, but I am considering doing so at some point. But not long after it gained such attention, I came... Continue Reading →
In America, July Fourth celebrates the day that us misbehaving Colonists decided we'd had enough of being bossed around and unfairly represented, and we were going to be our own bosses now thankyouverymuch.
He arrives home from work still wearing his grease covered uniform, having completed yet another long day working underneath a tractor trailer. He isn't smiling, but I know that's from the fatigue. He works so hard to take care of Precious and me. We both greet him as he heads to the dining room table... Continue Reading →
You probably already know that I love writing. I've been writing on this blog for several months, using one of my favorite things in the world to show others that they're not alone. I've been writing in general since I was little, writing my first fanfiction when I was six and my first novel when I was... Continue Reading →
I see you. I see your worn and chapped hands. I see those tired eyes and I wish I could grant them more sleep but my specialty is in the world of imagination, not this world most of you live in.
You Are Not Alone. 