Invisibledisability Stories

A girl dies after a night out. How did this happen? Why? A story about an invisible disability and a world incompatible with it.

According to her brother, high school sophomore Emily Randazzo has a "GPS brain" which set her route and won't let her try a new one. But as far as Emily is concerned, her whole life has been spent in trials - like trying to decide whether she should live in Brooklyn with her strict Mom or suburban Jersey with her lenient Dad - or trying to figure out how other people's brains work and why hers is so different from theirs - or trying to navigate when she should stand firm in her ways, versus being flexible for others. After so many years struggling to fit in and be happy, Emily finally feels that she's found her lane in life. She's attending an all-girl school that she loves, made some good friends like her bestie Jenny, and set a goal to be accepted to Yale University. So of course she doesn't want to change direction now! However, a weekend visit to the relaxed rules at her father's home puts new detours in Emily's path, starting in the form of two boys: her brother's best friend Kelly, and next-door-neighbor Evan. Soon enough Emily begins to wonder if she should recalculate. Divided between two parents, two states, two boys and the possibilities of two extremely different lives, Emily is trying to figure out who, what and where she wants to be in her future.

Abled is a long poem meant for spoken word. I wrote this poem to express my anger and frustrations with the world not designed for people like me and being othered and discriminated for being who I am. Disability includes: mental illnesses, invisible disabilities, needing glasses to see, etc. Disability isn't just a physical condition such as Down syndrome or little people, etc. Many people forget that the disabled community is the only community every person will end up in their lifetime, whether it's now or in the future, it doesn't matter if you weren't born disabled. Invisible disabilities and chronic pain is the most common form of disability. This poem is to bring awareness to disability and its history that many people are ignorant to. Now, with the current crisis we, the people of the United States of America, are experiencing and witnessing what is happening to the disabled people that no one is talking about. The Trump administration (2025) has begun collecting names and all medical records to make a list of all the disabled people in the USA to take away to their modern concentration camps. Fascism tied with eugenics, target disabled people in a mass genocide. Hitler got his idea of a "pure race" from eugenics. This is what led to the Holocaust in WWII, and it started with the disabled to push the boundaries of how far people will accept genocide. Disabled people don't matter, but it's the disabled that are the one killed first. People need to be aware that when fascism begins to take hold of a government and they start gathering the disabled, that's when you need to get out and run. Because this means they will come after you. The only way for us to survive and fight fascism is together. Equity is disabled people being acknowledged and supported by everyone, being uniting as one with abled people. Fight fascism by learning about the history of disabled people. This can help people recognize the signs and take action before it's too late.

Katsuki Kuromiya had never expected to move to Japan, she'd never expected to make friends, nor had she expected to found a club, she had not expected to become someone others looked up to, someone who was admired and respected, somebody everyone wanted to know. Somebody who was beautiful, flawless and perfect. The only problem; she was none of those things. She was nothing more than a liar, acting the part no matter how many lies she had to tell, with a wicked black heart that had never known love before now.