Family
Invasion of Privacy
My husband and I had been taking a shower while everyone was still home. I haven't been feeling the best so far this morning. So while we were showering my mother in-law is watching us. There was a darkness in her that I never saw. She almost looked angry while watching us.
By Emily Radford(Rising Phoenix)3 years ago in Confessions
Apologetic letter to my inner child
To my younger self, Where do I begin? Apologies are not our strongest point but I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you never got the chance to heal, my love. From traumas that seemed so trivial like parents' divorces, family arguments, moving states and adult problems. You are just a child how could have you had the chance?
By Rose Wright3 years ago in Confessions
The Little Girl On The Road
It was a Sunday afternoon, my parents decided that we were going to church together. Therefore, my brothers and I were bathed and clothed with some nice clothing. I took the little Holy Bible that my dad had given me the year before, and I held a beautiful purse, gifted by my elegant mom. My handbag matched my clothes and sandals. I assumed that I was pretty, without having any clue of what was going to happen that Sunday.
By Marie Cadette Pierre-Louis3 years ago in Confessions
On the Edge to Darkness
I feel like losing myself. I feel like falling into this drug that is you. You stay dormant in my head in front of the King of nightmares. You are holding keys to my heart that I fight to have. I opened my life to you only to find more wounds to be dug deeper. This drug feels so familiar. Like a drug that makes you an addict. I don’t know why or how to stop. I took a break and found a way to stop. I even moved on to a different type of drug just to erase you. Still, you emerge as if a lost soul looking for grievances.
By The Kind Quill3 years ago in Confessions
From the ASHes
I had just turned 19, first year of college – excited for the upcoming basketball season. There was this girl, we’ll call her Mary, I was infatuated. She was short, petite, and a fellow athlete – game over right? Wrong, she had a boyfriend. That didn't stop my infatuation, it also didn't stop her from helping me with my laundry, remember, this was my first year away from home – I’d never done my own laundry, at least not properly. 30+ years later and I'm still folding my shirts and towels the same way. We grew very close, but we didn't cross the line because of the boyfriend...
By Glenn Szeman3 years ago in Confessions
A Little Girl
I am anything but perfect, in fact I'm so far from it that I have made mistakes in my life and have regrets on things I have done and still have trouble keeping those memories and my emotions at bay, when they decide to intrude on my mind, it's hard not say sorry, soo many times to myself for even letting it get so far. For letting myself show more then what I intended and keep asking myself "Why did I do that?" "How could I have done that." I ask myself, because it was never like me to get so angry or so upset over the tiniest of things, but somehow I did. And it is why I am the way I am.
By AzteckPrincess264 years ago in Confessions
TWO WORLDS DIVERGING
Thwack, thwack, thwack, echoes off the church walls as I am jettisoned along the street at high speed in a Sims shopping trolley; with a broken wheel, my legs spayed out the front, screaming in exhilaration. The car is turning into the carpark as we swing around in a vortex that no one seems to have control of anymore. There are screams, my screams, and laughter, uncontrollable hysteria as the alcohol and mystery tablet I swallowed earlier begin to kick in. Suddenly there is a crash…the trolley rolls and I am unceremoniously delivered by my trolley driver on the ground in front of my parents as they step out of the car.
By Marg4 years ago in Confessions
Great Men Care Deeply
The first thing I can recall learning as the “duty” of a man is that he is the one that gets to die if the situation calls for it. The captain goes down with the ship, and the women and children get the lifeboats. I feel like this is something all honorable men know. It is a code they live by.
By Rudina 4 years ago in Confessions
Book Burning and Exorcisms
"I was forced to burn books or face an exorcism," I said when it was my turn to speak. In that moment it became clear how different my childhood was to my coworkers. My coworkers were sitting around talking about childhood stories and I was asked what crazy thing I did in my youth. The only thing I could think of was this book burning incident.
By Brian Warner4 years ago in Confessions
No, I Don't Want Kids. Here's Why.
I never really thought of myself as a childfree person until fairly recently, like, these last two years or so. Upon reflection, the pandemic and other world disasters that keep coming may be playing a bigger role in forcing me to make a decision than I may have originally thought. However, that is only one factor that has made me come to the conclusion that I don’t want kids, like, ever. This is why.
By Jessica Mann4 years ago in Confessions
