Excerpts ~~ Numbness creeps into the very veins that refuse to speak for me And yet they still bleed With every puncture Every laceration Everything that is ever forged out of hiding abiding by crippling sensations ~~ Perpetual sadness It hurts And quite frankly I've found no remedy No solution to end my enemy No bandage to my wounds I know I've been sitting in this tub too long because my fingers and toes are pruned ~~ Highest ranks #1 in poem collection (8/14/2018) #1 rhyming (8/16/2018) #1 in poetry (8/16/2018) #1 in my poems (8/16/2018) #2 in spoken word poetry(8/20/2018) I can't believe it! xoxo Generally discusses the problematic life of a teen, and the feelings and experiences that arise when growing up, some stronger than others. WARNING ⚠️ Depression and suicide may be mentioned.

This is not a ‘boy saves the girl’ type of story. This is anything but that. No boy can save a girl like Ana Shaw. She is saveless. Ana Shaw has had a rough three years. After a traumatic experience when she was fifteen, she has been in and out of mental hospitals in hopes of trying to make her whole again. Now, after multiple suicide attempts and then a full year of recovery, Ana finds herself back in a patient facility, surrounded by other mentally unstable people. But really, what's wrong with wanting to die? After everything that she's been through, it's totally understandable that she wants to end her life. However, everybody around her is determined to keep her alive no matter what she wants. Will they succeed or will Ana slip through their fingers once and for all? With the help of a few people at the mental rehabilitation center that she is staying in, Ana fights to find reasons to live before it's too late.

su·i·cide; ˈso͞oiˌsīd/ [noun] 1. the action of killing oneself intentionally. 2. intentionally kill oneself. a story of a senior high school student faking her own death to reach out to other students. © 2014 by pariahs. All Rights Reserved cover by: -polaroids- Other # 23 / Teen Fiction # 107