When you wake up on a Monday morning, cranky and dreading yet another day of high school, just remember that I love you. Always have, …
Major Depressive Adulthood by Zach J. Payne
There will come a day when you slip, when, despite your best efforts, the alligators in your head will break through. It’s nothing momentous, you …
Oasis by Lillie Busch
My skin bakes beneath my clothes. Dusty dry ground crackles beneath our feet. There is a low humming of bugs, and I know that I’ll …
Verses by Darby Joyce
At the time, I was introduced to most of the books I knew by my grandfather. On days when his back ached, he would retire …
She Called Rape by Victoria
Warning: graphic content. This is a true story about the most traumatic thing that has happened in my life. Even though I have suffered the …
Being Mary by Shelby Padgett
The first year I was asked, I was in fifth grade. A good friend of mine had told me minutes earlier that she hoped to …
In My Neighborhood by Julia Nunnally Duncan
There were many mothers in my neighborhood: Beulah, who tended to my foot on a summer day when I stepped on a shard of broken …
Andy Jones: A Righteous Dude by Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
The first day of my junior year was September 6, 1989. I walked into room 404 for my first Creative Writing class. I had no …
Believe by Murray Dunlap
After the car wreck, the three month coma, and the brain injury with a wheelchair, I say this: To believe in most anything is an …