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I want to kill myself

I want to kill myself. I am at the point where I have had enough of my life. My family never listens to my side and always blames me. My siblings pretend to cry and exaggerate, which makes me feel really upset. Exams are coming up, and I feel pretty dumb, so there’s no point….

Everyone seems better than me

I don’t know what to do now. I feel messed up. My luck never seems to work. A friend of mine applied for an American scholarship and got selected for the test, while I got rejected. Now everyone is bullying me. Even my friends are laughing at me. One of them, whom I always stood…

I have repressed memories of being abused

Growing up I had issues with speech and often wet the bed. My family often retells a story where I filled the oil tank with water from a hose. I believe this action may have been me lashing out. I have repressed memories of being abused. I remember having my pants pulled down and doing…

The Pain Is To Sharp

The truth is that the pain is sharp and never ends. My pain lives in between my third and fourth rib and wriggles into the centers of breath. I am abandoned and alone with a bullet in the chamber. The sun rises on Santa Monica.

Was I sexually abused as a child twice?

It all makes sense now. The reason why I am the way that I am. I’m a twenty-four year old single woman working a full-time job that consumes most of my free time, but thankfully I love my job. I struggle everyday with an anxiety disorder. Since as long as I can remember being a…

Who decides residency?

Who decides residency? If I DARE to live in a kill abortionist state and move away? How long does it take to no longer be considered a resident? Is there no escape? Would I be considered a resident of those places forever?

Using the word DARE

Using the word DARE If I believe it to make sense and be appropriate, I will use the word DARE to describe my experience like DARING to have an abortion or DARING to marry interracially. Where it is true that I’m subjected to rules and policies that I don’t want to – using the word…

I believed I was dying

In that moment, I believed I was dying. My chest was collapsing in on itself, trapping any air it could from the very bottom of my lungs. Fire wrapped itself around my heart and squeezed it tightly, my finger tips cool and my legs shaky. Fear manifested itself inside my brain and worked its way…