Publish.Read.Get.Read 2013-05-25T08:36:21 AM-01:00 Mike Defraga(MikeDefraga.com) http://www.booksie.com/parts/images/logo.gif http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/rss/2.0/popular/1 Booksie http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/1234catslane/reborn 2013-05-24T12:36:04 PM-01:00

just a little bit of my old and new life.

1234catslane http://www.booksie.com/1234catslane http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/katy_graham/holy-acrimony-ii 2013-05-23T08:53:31 PM-01:00

Domestic violence is the abuse of an individual in the same family or household, or with whom the partners have a child in common, and may include abuse or children, siblings, and elderly. Domestic violence also includes the abuse of an individual in a dating or sexually intimate relationship. I am a survivor of domestic violence. Having been abused by former husbands and partners, I have been terrorized in my home physically and emotionally. I have been abused by my Church leaders. I have been judged by these and have not been treated with dignity or respect. I sought Pastoral counseling on many occasions over the years with inappropriate and ineffective relief, emotionally, spiritually and financially. I was driven out of fellowship with my church due to abuse and sexual harassment by male church leaders and members. Stalking is a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed or molested. Date or spousal rape is criminal sexual conduct. Usually not reported or prosecuted. Sexual limits need to be communicated and respected. Victims need services including support from a community of professionals due to health and long term mental illness. Economic dependency, lack of support from family and friends, no available options regarding shelters, fear and guilt of responsibility for keeping a family together are some reasons it may be difficult to leave an abuser. Mounting tensions, false sense of hope that things may change, tensions ever-present with no calm period, isolation, blame, e.g., substance abuse, manipulation by abusers including his efforts to control her, feeling a need to prove abuse when others refuse to believe the individual is abusive and describe him as charming. Children caught in the middle may be injured, confused, have poor performance in school, aggressive behavior in relationships with peers and family members and poor self-images, and may feel responsible and may be abusive to other family members. These dynamics are why the cycle of abuse continues.

Katy Graham http://www.booksie.com/katy_graham http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/brittanybee/what-could-have-been 2013-05-23T02:17:40 AM-01:00

It was all about you. It still is all about you. Yet, you will never understand. You were it. You were the one. This is for you.

Brittanybee http://www.booksie.com/brittanybee http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/2weird2live/facade 2013-05-22T06:24:00 PM-01:00

idk

2weird2live http://www.booksie.com/2weird2live http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/firerat570/alone-on-a-rainy-day 2013-05-21T03:24:00 PM-01:00

Something I made in two hours when it was raining and I was left alone in the house.

firerat570 http://www.booksie.com/firerat570 http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/explodingpeanuts/losing-control 2013-05-21T07:40:48 AM-01:00

I had a moment in my day where everything in my head broke and I couldn't stop crying. So I wrote all my thoughts down. I am sorry it lots of it doesn't make sense but I don't want to edit it too much.

Explodingpeanuts http://www.booksie.com/explodingpeanuts http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/emochix123/whack-jobs 2013-05-20T05:49:29 PM-01:00

It's Visitor's Day...

emochix123 http://www.booksie.com/emochix123 http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/angel_flash/my-honest-lies 2013-05-20T11:11:38 AM-01:00

This is actually a report I wrote for English class. I'm considering turning it into an autobiography which I will write a new chapter for every few months or every year. Give me your feedback on whether or not I should continue this or if I should just leave it at this:3 Gracias!!!

Angel Flash http://www.booksie.com/angel_flash http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/deepconfessions/the-high 2013-05-20T12:09:15 AM-01:00

A woman gets laced drugs, and has a sexy night with a mate she just met. When she walks down an ally she does'nt see whats coming.

Deepconfessions http://www.booksie.com/deepconfessions http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/brittzish/the-story-of-me 2013-05-18T09:46:57 PM-01:00

A story about a girl trying to make it in this world.

Brittzish http://www.booksie.com/brittzish http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/hamraazkashmiri/cry-of-kashmir 2013-05-18T05:28:12 AM-01:00

CRY OF KASHMIR IS A WEEPING BY MOTHER KASHMIR

Hamraazkashmiri http://www.booksie.com/hamraazkashmiri http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/hamraazkashmiri/peace-in-kashmir 2013-05-18T05:05:57 AM-01:00

MILITANCY IN KASHMIR

Hamraazkashmiri http://www.booksie.com/hamraazkashmiri http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/hamraazkashmiri/bio-graphy 2013-05-18T04:55:58 AM-01:00

I AM SUBMITTING MY SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Hamraazkashmiri http://www.booksie.com/hamraazkashmiri http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/shaye/breaking-the-habit 2013-05-17T09:11:54 PM-01:00

Loneliness feeds my addiction

Shaye http://www.booksie.com/shaye http://www.booksie.com/true_confessions/short_story/terry_walker/mr-miller 2013-05-16T07:32:48 PM-01:00

A man on the edge of insanity.

Terry Walker http://www.booksie.com/terry_walker