Domsdisabilitychallenge Stories

Fictional story using the prompts of domsdisabilitychallenge

"My life is like a movie being watched on someone else's computer... and they're wearing the headphones. Everything is silent. It's been silent for my entire life. I have never heard anything since I was born. I was thrown into my life against my will, a girl with no family and no hearing. I feel like I live in a horror movie. My name is Maria Valasquez, and it drives me crazy that I can't make a difference. I long to make a difference, to myself, to deaf people, to the world. There are millions of things that happen to me and the world, and it's like a horror movie (a silent horror movie)-- I see everything happening around me, but I can't do anything about it. I just watch it happen, as much as I would like to scream and stop the movie so I don't have to watch something so awful, but it's life, not a movie. I just have to cope with it..." Maria Valasquez has had a hard life. Born deaf and losing her family at the age of seven, she is taken in six years later by a kind family with financial difficulties. Her best friend, Tanisha, introduces her to a new activity that allows her to make connections without verbal speech. But an accident leaves her unable to use sign language and participate in the sport she loves. Every obstacle Maria faces seems to isolate her more and more from the rest of her silent world. Then Maria comes across an impossible choice that could change her life, and make her what she's always wanted to be: normal. Written in 2015-2016 (age 11-12)

Lydia Roth has never before visited her brother, James, ever since he had to leave three years ago. And when she finally accepts the fact that she needs to see him - because, well, he's her brother after all - she does exactly that. She expected what any sibling would expect; questions of why she hadn't visited him earlier. How was life for the past three years. Was she in a relationship. The usual older brother chit chat that she wasn't very used to. What she hadn't expected though, was to find Thomas Green somewhere within the mass of jobs and situations she had been thrown in by her dearest brother. *** cover by @severuslexus

❝Don't get your panties in a bunch. . . or your tinsel in a tangle!❞ Farrah Morton thinks that fate most definitely is not in her favor given she's a Christmas fanatic stuck in a hospital for the holidays, undergoing strenuous physical therapy whilst simultaneously being courted by an awkward (admittedly hot) volunteer who doesn't seem to understand that she's literally uninterested. It's bound to be a memorable holiday season; that's for sure. WARNING: EXCESSIVE BAD CHRISTMAS PUNS AHEAD ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ copyright xoasha all rights reserved cover by @retrobunnie

Written for The Disability Challenge - Mobility Prompts. "Evera. What a fitting name. Almost silly, if you ask me. 'Brave one'. Did they know I'd end up like this? Sometimes, I dream about being able to do something, but when I wake up, it's the last time I'm ever able to do it. It's like my brain reminding me that I can do whatever it is, not once again, but twice again." ** Disclaimer: I do not have ALS, nor am I a caretaker or friend to anyone with ALS. The story is based loosely on the experiences of someone I know, combined with my own experiences becoming nonverbal, and some research. All respectful feedback is appreciated!

Casey is an angel, literally. It's her job to act human and help certain humans. Well, there is one person who has caught her eye. Ian. He's disabled and is bullied. It's even harder since he's in a wheelchair. Since Casey is an angel and her job is to help, she helps Ian. Hopefully, though, she won't get any feelings for him. All rights reserved® BNwrites123 2016

When a six-foot-two, rugby playing golden boy meets a sarcastic, unimpressed, blind girl on the train, she ends up meaning a whole lot more to him than just somebody to sit next to on the way to school.

*note: I didn't make up the challenge that I'm doing and nor the chapters I have to put. Which are on the first chapter of this story* Where you see things through the eyes of Jeremy, a 16 year old boy just trying to get through life with his disability. Cover by ?, but someone in a group thread.

Thirty day challenges to encourage writing disabled characters. If you decide to participate, let me know!

Ember Tremaine finds out some news she isn't ready for. Her father is dead and so is her leg. So what's she to do when she gets a new leg? Refuse. Whine. Cry. Scream. Be a brat. Throw a tantrum. Give up. After she gets her new leg, Ember must be nursed back to health by a .. hot guy? Join Ember in a humorous, sad and just effin' amazing book. (Heh heh.)