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No longer small
I fear being unheard again. From the age of 17 I’ve worked in 11 jobs, from restaurants and retail to entertainment (Six flags scare actor, not the other kind). My friends joke that I’m “Trish” from the Disney Show “Austin & Ally” because every week she had a new job. My first job was at…
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Dancing on my own
Empty club but still having fun When I turned 18, I was always at a club. I loved the ambiance of it, how everything moved quickly and in slow motion at the same time. How the music was so loud you couldn’t hear your own thoughts or the creepy guy trying to hit on you.…
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Fearless, Apparently
The palms of my feet are scarred from the slices of these tiny sharp shells. The eggshells that covered the ground I walked through when growing up with my mom, the same shells that scared me into staying in an abusive relationship with a man 15 years older than me, the same shells that silenced…
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From Love Letters to Letting Go
I thought I lost my words. A few weeks ago I was in a relationship with a boy I could not trust. It didn’t start off like that, of course, trust is earned through communication, apologies and presence, physically and emotionally. But that wasn’t for us. There came a point where my love letters to…
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I'm a girl in my 20s 