Peer Stories

The Empathy Squad follows four middle-schoolers living in a mixed-income apartment complex who struggle with different challenges: ADHD, anxiety, dyslexia, disability, identity pressures, and family stress. They're neighbors, classmates, and sometimes accidental rivals - until a school project goes wrong, exposing each kid's insecurities. The group fractures after misunderstandings, teasing, and rising tension. Meanwhile, Briar, a tough new resident, becomes the antagonist by mocking their coping skills and fueling conflict, driven by her own loneliness and fear about her mother's deployment. As the school and apartment complex hold a joint community showcase, the kids are forced to collaborate. Through funny moments, arguments, and quiet vulnerabilities, they begin exchanging coping techniques - Maya teaches Leo art-based strategies, Jade helps Noah ground himself during a panic spike, and Noah reframes Jade's anxious thoughts. Briar sabotages the early stages of the project, feeling left out and resentful. But when a real crisis hits - a building-wide power outage that leaves younger kids frightened in stairwells - the Empathy Squad steps up, using their skills to help calm and organize the community. Briar sees their impact and reconsiders her behavior. In a pivotal emotional moment, she breaks down and admits her fear about her mother being deployed. The group listens, helps her breathe, and encourages her to join the project rather than tear it down. Together, they complete the community showcase display: a mural representing different ways people cope, connect, and grow. The story ends with hope. The Empathy Squad isn't perfect - they still argue, still get overwhelmed - but they've built a shared language of empathy. Briar slowly joins the group, and the apartment complex becomes a place where feelings aren't weaknesses but pathways to strength.

Rory has been seen as the dumb one or the just stupid in general.Thats not the case at all he's actually intelligent. They also keep forgetting he's a vampire with super speed, strength, hearing, and smell. One day Benny goes to the grave yard looking for a specific flower his grandma sent him to go get. When he got there he saw something that he shouldn't have.

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Why all prohibited things are the ones we can't avoid? Lynn Sanders, a teenage highschool girl who always wants to have everything, but she is poor, and she envies her classmates who are always in style; and she, always out. In order to feed her brat, she makes something she must not do. What can Mr. Teddy do to keep Lynn out of this dilemma?

The social world asks a lot of you. This short text underlines its severity.

Maybe insanity is like beauty, in which it is judged by the eye of the beholder ...

At just 13 years old, Shanice Clarke finds her whole world turning upside down. Living in the inner city of Kingston, life was already hard-poverty, family struggles, and the constant fight to survive. But when a secret relationship with an older boy leads to pregnancy, her childhood is ripped away overnight. Now Shanice must face harsh judgment from neighbors, pressure from her strict Christian mother, and the whispers at school. Every day brings new battles-between shame and strength, fear and hope, rejection and love. With the help of her best friend Tia, and unexpected support from people she never imagined, Shanice must find the courage to grow up too soon, to raise her voice, and decide what kind of future she really wants for herself and her baby. "Belly Too Soon" is a gripping Jamaican coming-of-age story filled with heartbreak, resilience, and raw truth. It explores teen pregnancy, poverty, family bonds, betrayal, and the unbreakable spirit of young girls fighting to be seen.

Being a teenager comes with anxiety, confusion, and stress. However, what lets us mature into the ever blossoming period of adulthood is the way we handle these overwhelming emotions. But what if...what if you didn't handle these emotions? What if you let your confusion delude you? What if you let your anxiety deceive you? What if you just let these things consume you? What happens then?

A Poem To Express How Smoking From A Young Age Can Affect Your Whole Life. None Of These Actions Described Are Personal To Me.

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Confined. Trapped. Watched. There is no escape. No escape from the guards, no escape from the Asylum, and no escape from Life. Chained. Broken. Insane. Naleene prays for justice. But how can she find peace when the guards' one priority is her life, and her justice is her death.

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Tory Hitchers a normal highschool Teenager who lives with her grandparents, She wants the life her friends have, Party all night. Smoke, Sex, everything that she can escape from which she thinks is better than staying home all day eating chips and cleaning her grandparents draws. What happens when she finally gets the opportunity to do all that fun stuff and it comes with a cost in the end? maybe being a good girl isn't so bad after all

Aware of the self beyond, depicting the subconscious self and the influence it holds on our daily realities, how connecting deep with it could transform your life on a different Scale and perspectives to achieving goals in life.