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This is a piece that I wrote about my Mum and Dad and how they mean the world to me. Even all the riches in the world could never replace the love I have for my Mum and Dad, my best friends. It's important to let them know how much… Read More

Tags: love, life, learning, respect, parents, care, compassion, dad, life_lessons, loving, cherish, growing_up, mum, appreciate, my_sunshine

Short Story / Science Fiction

September 07, 2015

Reads: 636

Comments: 1

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Young man is bullied at school and finds comfort in lucid dreaming. Read More

Tags: dreaming, bully, growing_up, lucid, lucid_dreaming, bulling, escape_life

High school is over for Gregory. College will start soon. Gregory has never been really good in expressing what he wants and desires. He finds himself chasing after something, but he doesn't even know what that something is, but he is certain that it is something that is important to… Read More

Tags: love, friendship, school, romance, life, college, growing_up

My first love was painful, unrequited, and made me hate myself, but it's okay, because it helped me grow into who I am now. Read More

Tags: unrequited, growing_up, first_love, self_harm

With experience comes great advice. Having brothers is great. Even when little brothers don't want to be seen with their sister anymore... They offer great advice, protection, laughs and love that no one else could. My eldest brothers advice as I set off for uni was to play music... So… Read More

Tags: childhood, family, thanks, poetry, confusion, music, lost, inspiration, home, words, kids, frustration, poets, treasure, busy

Poem / Poetry

April 30, 2015

Reads: 433

Comments: 2

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This poem was written sometime ago, stacked in my Poetry Diary which embodies some other poems of various forms. Sitting alone at office, I picked up a biro and began doing things with it I thought only children do. Then a thought occured to me about how most of our… Read More

Tags: childhood, growing_up, mud

A poem about finding inner strength. Read More

Tags: poetry, child, growing_up

Poem / Poetry

February 05, 2015

I wrote this one a long time ago now. It's about peer pressure, doing something or acting a certain way that goes against your ideals, or degrades you in some way for others. I suppose everyone can probably relate to that at some point, especially in those high school years. Read More

Tags: depression, shame, growing_up, peer_pressure, self_hatred, giving_in

Betrayal. I roll the word around my tongue like candy, relishing in its bitter taste... Read More

Tags: flash_fiction, friendship, children, story, hurt, betrayal, boys, imagination, forest, friends, invisible, growing_up, best_friends

The reader is thrust into a dialectic of ill humor, alcohol, and a dynamic tone that slowly reveals the truth of the situation at hand, ending after a series of flashbacks through the eyes of the protagonist's brother. I played around with alternating perspective and tense, and really tried to… Read More

Tags: death, family, humor, fiction, war, literary_fiction, beer, alcoholism, army, realism, adolescence, growing_up, texas, alternating_tense

In this 4 Chapter novel Kimberly and Her boyfriend Isaiah decide to take there relationship to next level. The plan to have sex with each for the 1st time. And Kimberly takes us on a journey of how she and Isaiah fell in love with each other. Starting in ELEMENTARY,MIDDLE… Read More

Tags: teen, school, romance, virginity, growing_up, young_love, nerd

Creative non-fiction essay, Revised from one previously handed in to a professor. Read More

Tags: creative, mom, essay, non_fiction, adolescence, growing_up, girls, thanksgiving, coming_of_age

Book / Young Adult

September 06, 2014

Reads: 258

Comments: 2

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Arucethrople National Talent School. One of the most well known schools that allows students to choose a course according to their talents. 5 teens start their first year as the new first year class. Rena Bright, Jonah Reed, Jensen Smith, Katie Leigh and Madison Hart are five 15 year olds… Read More

Tags: romance, growing_up, boarding_school, teen_drama, teen_life

Growing up and forgetting your innocence. Read More

Tags: love, longing, disappointment, growing_up, disillusionment

Poem / True Confessions

July 01, 2014

Reads: 626

Comments: 5

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At loss with myself in the middle of the night. Read More

Tags: depression, young_adult, lost, myself, growing_up, agony, selfesteem

Poem / Romance

May 31, 2014

Reads: 2217

Comments: 1

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Taking the next step in a relationship for the first time. Romantic and emotional. Read More

Tags: love, romance, poetry, life, passion, man, relationship, sweet, girl, boy, devotion, lust, emotion, sexual, affection

This just a little something I came up with a while ago that I wanted to share with you all. As I'm getting ready to start college and really become a part of the adult world, I've noticed how stressful it really is. I can't relax anymore because I get… Read More

Tags: growing_up, charlotte_blackwater, a_world_that_deosnt_exist

A short media essay that depicts the experiences of music shared between a father daughter relationship. Read More

Tags: memoir, growing_up, latinos, father_daughter

Sydney has been feeling lost and miserable her whole life. She's tired of being disappointed by those she loves and hopes that her first year at Milford University will give her the break she's been looking for. Leo has been through enough hardship and is grateful that his football scholarship… Read More

Tags: depression, friends, university, growing_up, singing, coming_of_age, gay_male

Book / Young Adult

March 26, 2014

Reads: 519

Shelves: 1

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A party biographical story of a girl trying to face real life. But can she manage it without the drugs? ((please review me!!)) Read More

Tags: love, drugs, addiction, growing_up, teen_pregnancy

So I was contemplating my future as I laid in bed last night, and I realized that I don't want to grow up. I mean, I've realized this before, but this time, I was legitimately scared and afraid of growing up and going to high school next year. I don't… Read More

Tags: poetry, growing_up, kid, peter_pan

This is just the first two chapters of my first project! Obviously there will be more chapters but I'd like some opinions on wether or not I should continue with this project or move on. Honest opinions appreciated ( just be nice about it!) Read More

Tags: drugs, romance, growing_up

Book / Travel

March 02, 2014

Reads: 848

Comments: 1

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Ashton is finally graduated school, and now she can go and follow her dreams. She imagines beaches, and hot guys, and all she really wants to do is surf. But with people telling her she needs to do something with her life, will she cave under their harsh words or… Read More

Tags: love, romance, adult, life, adventure, travel, heart, dreams, dream, traveling, ocean, dreaming, harsh, growing_up, infinity

Book / Young Adult

February 09, 2014

Reads: 1010

Comments: 14

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Once a high-class pageant girl, Saoirse McKinley is trying as hard as she can to leave that part of her past behind her. Permanently. Remaking herself into a punk queen, she starts a band and hits the streets. But in an odd twist of events, she has to condsider returning… Read More

Tags: love, school, romance, novel, music, scandal, boys, rock, competition, teenagers, challenge, shock, growing_up, singing, awkward

Short Story / Other

February 01, 2014

Reads: 628

Comments: 2

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The truth about the life of being a father. (Most) Read More

Tags: love, fathers, dedication, growing_up

Poem / Poetry

January 19, 2014

Reads: 348

Comments: 1

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Sometimes I feel like I have no control Read More

Tags: loss, growing_up, no_control

his isn't just a story. Its a life of a normal teenage girl . She hasn't got the charms nor is athletic. But as everyone she has some good qualities too. These are her diary entries since she has joined a new school . Boys will change, places will change,… Read More

Tags: growing_up, teen_ficion, life_of_a_young_girl

Miscellaneous / Non-Fiction

December 13, 2013

Reads: 575

Comments: 1

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This doesn't really have much point, it is very much like a diary entry. I write a lot but don't really know what to do with it, so I thought I'd start putting it together in a book and see what people think. Read More

Tags: childhood, loneliness, transition, growing_up

Sometimes being in love is like being a tuna sandwich--ya dun get ate. Read More

Tags: love, change, growing_up, agh, aggghtags, this_defeats_the_point, aaaaagh

Poem / Memoir

December 10, 2013

I wrote this poem when I was really upset at my parents,and also used it for a class. Read More

Tags: life, divorce, growing_up

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