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Thin by bastille
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When kids are young and full of innocent wonder, they're asked the question that will haunt them far into their adult lives: what do you want to be when you're older? Kyleigh Frost's answer to this very question was that she wanted to be thin. Ever since she could remember, all she wanted to do with her life is to be the skinniest girl out of everyone she met on the streets. If she couldn't be the brightest kid in her school or win the next cycle of America's Next Top Model, she might as well be the thinnest one there. After all, to be fat is the biggest sin one could ever commit in today's society.
Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board by zaarsenist
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This is the original, unedited version of Light as a Feather, Book #1. This book was the inspiration for the Hulu Original Series. The revised version is now available in bookstores throughout the USA & Canada from Simon Pulse. McKenna Brady thinks her junior year of high school is going to be the best ever when she's welcomed into the elite group of popular girls at Weeping Willow High School led by blonde, gorgeous Olivia Richmond. Prior to junior year, McKenna was known in her small town as the girl whose twin sister died in a tragic house fire, and she's overjoyed at the prospect of redefining her identity. She has a date to the Homecoming dance with Olivia's handsome older brother, and a good chance of being elected to student council. For the first time since McKenna's parents divorced, things are looking up. But everything changes the night of Olivia's Sweet Sixteen sleepover birthday party. Violet, the shy, mysterious new girl in town, suggests that the girls play a scary game called Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, during which Violet makes up elaborate stories about the future ways in which beautiful Olivia, brassy Candace, and athletic Mischa will die. The game unsettles McKenna because she's already escaped death once in her life, but she doesn't want to ruin her friends' fun. It's only a game, she reminds herself.
A Girl by TheHardRoad
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A girl's life, from beautiful beginning to untimely end. "Where did all the happiness go?" *Author Note* This story has suggested eating disorders. I'm not placing a trigger warning, just cautioning you. Stay strong x -Ash Another note, five years on: Hey there, if you like this story you might like my new short story collection, A Testimony to the Continuation of my Pitiful Existence. Also, my name is now Peyton. It's been changed since 2018 Much love, - Peyton <3
Unspoken by Wintersdancer
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It's my choice to become mute. The things that happened to me has me so horrified that I've decided to be a selective mute. I was taken as a child and I had to endure pain no one should ever have to. When they found me they wanted me to talk about it. Talk about the pain, and the unmentionable. I couldn't. I didn't want relive it. Not even for a day. I haven't uttered a word since it happened. My story was broadcasted for the whole world to see, for weeks, before my parents had it taken down. No one really knows what really happened to me in those months when I was taken at 15. I never want anyone to know. Everything changes when one guy enters my life. He wants to know what happened, he wants to change me. He just might, but what he gets is more than he bargained for. Those unspoken words could have prevented the chain reaction. First installment in the Unspoken trilogy. Unedited
The Fallen Queen (Winner of the Write Way Award 2013) #Wattys2015 #MyWattysChoice #Featured by AlexisStClement
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Marie wanted to be as good as her mother wanted. Since her older brother was diagnosed with autism, she is considered the family's "normal" child. She thus feels she must be perfect in every way, which soon turns out to be a haunting task. Desperate for love and to make sense of her mother's contradictory behaviors and spiritual changes (from her mother's infidelities and alcoholism to a strict religious cult, and back again), Marie starts a friendship with a make belief friend, Ana. Ana is beautiful, loving, all-knowing and lives in an older version of Marie's house. Ana is the best friend one could hope for...that is until she encourages you to pursue a life threatening path. A book loosely based on my life: my relationship with my mother, my father, my autistic brother and my sister; my life in a cult; and my battle with anorexia. Nevertheless, this book is a work of fiction (imaginary friend, haunted house, mystical creatures, paranormal, etc).
My Psychotic Ex-Boyfriend by beautiful_and_damned
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{Completed} Rose and Christopher were once the perfect couple. Rose was helping Christopher overcome his demons and together they seemed to be unstoppable, believing that their love would last forever. That all changed one day when Rose discovered her boyfriend's cheating ways and what started out as an innocent break up, turned into a massacre. Christopher snapped, going on a psychotic break and murdering Rose's family. One year later, and Rose is slowly piecing back the puzzle of her life after those she loved were so brutally taken away. With good friends and a new boyfriend, she thinks that the scars from that fateful night are starting to fade. She thought that the horrors were over, but really, they had only just begun. When she hesitantly joins her friends on a camping trip, she is completely unaware of the person lurking in the shadows, the man who has been watching her from a distance all this time, and has now come to get what he wants. Her. And if he can't have her, well, then nobody can. {top: Horror #41}
Avery's Anorexia by Explosivewafflez
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"If you could see your demons for what they are, you'd never let them anywhere near you. " Avery Payne is completely disgusted with her body. She'll do anything to be skinny like all the other girls at school - no matter the cost. What happens when exercising becomes dieting, and dieting turns into the deadly Anorexia? Avery is about to find that Anorexia, Bulimia, Depression, Suicide, and Anxiety are demons, quite literally. What if you could see these illnesses for what they were? What would they say to you? More importantly, what would you say back? Can Avery defeat Ana, or will it claim her life? [The Fighter's Series: Book 3] Highest Rank: #4 in Short Story (A/N: It is not necessary to read the other books in order to understand this one)