Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
Maddie woke up around 10 am in a panic. She had totally overslept, and she was an hour late to sign on for work. She stumbled over to her laptop and quickly surveyed her emails and chats, figuring everyone on her team was probably looking for her and wondering where Read more
*Trigger Warning Swinging from a beam, I shudder, not in fear or fright, but glee, that I have the power (even in my state) to rub myself clean. On the cusp of my neck snapping, tugging as the coarse grains of the noose tighten further, against my pallid, exposed neck, Read more
It nestled in her, rising and falling with each exhalation. For her, pregnancy and fear went hand in hand. The minutes waiting for the result to show on the test. Peering this way and that, is it a line or a shadow. Then holding on, holding on so tightly, hoping Read more
In June, I called Mimi for her birthday. In a delighted voice, she told me that Mom had tied balloons to the mailbox that said, “Happy Birthday, Mimi.” She sounded like a child instead of an adult turning twenty-seven. My heart constricted with pity. I didn’t know how to respond. Read more
The story of a West Virginia girl who missed her moment, survived the silence, and found her smile. Trigger Warning:This essay contains references to childhood sexual abuse, reproductive health, and survival. Please take care while reading. At 50 years old, I got braces. To reshape something as simple — and Read more
You can’t ask me to repeat any of it. If it’s written somewhere on a bathroom wall, it was shouted at the top of someone’s lungs. Obscenities in juxtaposition bordering on blasphemous spewed through windows rolled down, birds flying from clinched fists, horns honking, vehicles jerking and weaving between lanes Read more
