9. MayDear Diary,I feel so stupid. Why can't I just tell them? Why can't I open my mouth and say it out loud? I can write it here--it's easy. I don't even care if somebody finds it written here. Why can't I report it? Why couldn't I just tell Boss today?...
"If Heaven wasn't so far away, I'd pack up the kids and go for the day. Introduce 'em to their [father], watch 'em laugh at the way he talked." -If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away, Justin Moore.Boss watches as the two of them leave and waits for the door to clo...
"Why didn't you just tell her? I know it's your stepfather. You live in the same house; he can't be that good at hiding it." I don't look at him. I get into his car and sigh at the warmth inside, shivering at the cold covering me from the inside out. He g...
"Mommy! Mommy, I have to go potty." I tug on Mommy's summer dress and she looks down and smiles. It is a tired smile, but she grabs my hand and starts towards the women's restroom. He stops her, kissing her softly. "You look tired, dear. Go sit down, I'll...
My arms are white with self-wrapped bandages from my wrists up to my elbows. I have a large tank-top on underneath a long-sleeved jacket. Can't exactly wear it the whole day--it's supposed to be in the 80s today. Funny, summer doesn't start for two weeks-...
"Be awake early tomorrow morning, 'Lena."I shiver and curl up farther into my covers. I don't know what he has in store for me. He's never up earlier than he has to be, which is usually around the time I get home. It's Spring now. I turn eighteen in anoth...
Laughingwith friends.Smilingand happy.Jokingfor fun.Bouncingabout,Nothingwrong.Denied.Goingto parties.Dancingthe night away.Walkingwith my head up.Singing,free-spirited.Denied.Crying happy tears instead ofsad.Looking in the mirror,Loving myself instead of...
At age five, I had already experienced the loss of a parent. My biological father died of lung cancer. At age six, I had already experienced alcoholism, though not personally. My mom was glued to her wine. That was how I found her one day, walking into th...
"Every day is one more inch of a slow blade sinking in. Vision fading, suffocating inside my own skin... And I'm fighting the stranger in my eyes, and I know that only one of us will survive. If I can't save us, I've got to save myself. I can't stay here...
I'm going to tell you a story. Yes, you, the reader. You, dear reader, are going to learn my story. My life."Rejected?" No college,no future,no reason for meto stay here.I travelled all around the world,met the mostwonderful guy.Lost all my moneyon a hous...
"Let me out. Let me out. Let me out." -Video of Alyssa Lies by Jason Michael Carroll.***"Hello?"I jump at the voice behind me, and try to smile, but it's a grimace and he knows it."How are you, Philena? I haven't seen you in school for a week."Adam is too...
I pause at my locker to switch out my books and binders during my appointed lunch time. I'm just about to head to the library to finish up today's homework for Calculus, College Writing, and ASL when Adam strolls up to his locker next to mine. He doesn't...
"Does that make more sense now?"I look down at my paper- Calculus homework that only an hour ago would have completely stumped me and had me giving up. It does make more sense. I could finish this in 15 minutes now. Easy.I nod and smile, eyes wide in surp...
This whole entire week has had me ranting about one thing or another, but the issue with the largest presence in my mind is Child Abuse... or abuse of any sort, really. How can a person look at a child of any age, whether it is their child or grandchild o...
"Soundless as a Shadow I stay in my room all evening.Drawing any sort of attentionto myself would be an enormousmistake. Shh! Turn off the music.Ever now and again, Daddy leaves his own room, on a Turkeyhunt. Staccato footsteps accompanyhis muttered threa...
