I awoke to the smell of her cheap perfume filling the air. “Mom?” I asked confused. “Get up,” she growled, scratching the skin of …
‘Kiss and Cry’ Review: Not Another Cancer Movie
We’ve seen it before time and time again. The doomed love stories. I suppose there is a strange pull toward the idea of sitting in …
The Dead Inside: Finding Hope in the Darkest of Times
The Dead Inside by Cyndy Etler details the true story of a girl who’s striving to escape the confines of her abusive home and Straight, …
To Be Beautiful by Paige Shay
Each morning I hid the girl I saw in the mirror — the girl that no one else saw but me. She was me in …
Stephanie Elliot: Writing, Eating Disorders, and the Meaning Behind Sad Perfect
Stephanie Elliot is the author of the new YA novel Sad Perfect, which centers around a little-known eating disorder called ARFID (Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder). Pea is …
Saving a Life: Anorexia and the Blogging Community by Maria Sledmere
You know that way that Facebook uses some complex algorithm to determine what news appears in your feed? Recently, it just so happened to be …
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 …
Chimichanga by Alexis Campbell
You might be able to guess from my glasses and general bookishness that I would be bad at socializing. You’d be right. Sometimes these first …