Personalessay Stories

Its one thing living in a world of blame and self-delusion as to letting things happen as they do..

A letter to thank you for believing in me and for showing me how to believe in myself, even if just for a short while.

I wrote this back in Highschool as a personal essay of in a sense going through the process of letting go of a friend. I've grown up with a fair amount of relationships...

𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘢 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰�...

Hunting is something many do, but most don't. When a hunter on the lookout for his deer is finally given the opportunity, a change in the air causes a change in events.

an essay on loss and the inevitability of change

After a revealing search for his birth mother, Lee declined to pursue the paternal side of the story. Little did he know how the fate of the planet itself was wrapped up...

This is a true story about a friend I made in the streets of Old Delhi named "Torrential Rain". I took inspiration from Orwell's 'Shooting an Elephant' in weav...

This poem was written directly in response to, and after, the poem "Rolling Stones" by Marina Keegan, an author who was taken too early from this world. Her wo...

Just an apology and a brief explanation. Not really any specific set of formal writing.

True Story. This is my journey through the battle my father fought with bladder cancer. This is the raw, unedited version of what I actually turned in for a college ass...

Something short I wrote to figure some stuff out, hoping somebody can relate to it so I don't feel as alone.

My youth was in green. Green trees, grass-stained kneecaps, frogs in the summertime. It's a strange time to look back on. It begs for nostalgia but keeps itself distant...

Personal essay

My ongoing personal journey with ADHD

An essay about the different kinds of walls in our lives, or at least the walls in my life.

Pain- how do we feel it? What is public pain and what is private pain? This personal essay looks at these ideas, and more.

Things that are occasionally empty: Cups, Hearts, Buildings, Bathtubs, Rooms, Faces, Shoes, Minds.

Every year, in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, Penguin Random House hosts the Creative Writing Awards, looking for diverse, unique voices of high school seniors...