• She felt like the depression was fencing her in. “All these fencing…keeping me from actually leaving the yard.” She thought.

  • She knew what was hidden in the trunk. “Drive faster, Bitch” He ordered as he shoved the gun harder against her side. She was shaking. If only she had stayed home tonight.

  • She looked at him. Was he stupid? Why didn’t he respond. He just looked at her and grinned, pulled out a notebook and pen, and simply wrote: I can’t hear you. Her face turned red. She felt instantaneously horrible. Of course. He was deaf. That’s why he didn’t hear her when she told him to [...]

  • How could she tell her family? She had been a pianist since she was 9. Her family was counting on her going to a top music university as a classical pianist. How was she going to tell them she was a drummer in a garage band? What were they going to say? She knew she [...]

  • She couldn’t take this. She put her mask on everyday and forced herself to smile. To show that she was alright, but she really wasn’t. The kemo was slowly killing her. Forget the cancer… the kemo was going to do it to her. She would rather die happy then ill from all of the medication [...]

  • She looked in the mirror. “What are people talking about? I don’t have a problem. So what if I want to be thinner. Nothing wrong with that.” She had heard the rumors. People saying she looked like a skeleton. Saying she had an eating disorder. She just wanted to be thinner. She had been ‘the [...]

  • She was so excited. She had the tickets in her hand. She knew he would love it. Love HER for it. She had saved for months just to get these two front row tickets to his favorite band. She knocked on the door. “Hello?” said the stick thin blonde who answered the door. She couldn’t [...]

  • She knew people would stare. They should. That horrible cage they called a “school”. All they did was tease her. Stare and make fun of her. She finally gave them a reason to stare at something other than the scar that crossed her face. Stretching from her eyebrow down to the corner of her lip. [...]

  • She knew he was violent. She knew the risk, but she couldn’t help it. She loved him. Everyone had warned her and she kept telling herself that he would keep his promise. He would never hit her again. “I deserved it” she would tell herself. “I shouldn’t have said that”. Deep down she knew she [...]

  • She picked the megaphone up, took a deep breath, and shouted; “LETS GO TIGERS, LETS GO.” She could see the crowd getting pumped up…why couldn’t she? She just couldn’t seem to be genuinely happy anymore. It was all faked. All a mask of happiness. No one seemed to understand, Hell she didn’t even understand it. [...]