Personalessay Stories

"Heart~Aches: When the Pain Goes Deeper Than Words" By Deborah Green There's a kind of ache that's hard to explain. It doesn't just sit in your mind-it sinks i...

Heavy rain, high speeds, and highway chaos-Navigating Fear is a deeply personal account of driving anxiety in a storm. With immersive sensory detail and raw honesty, thi...

When one man's brain becomes a battleground for relentless Christmas earworms, he fights back with Beethoven, fresh air, and sheer stubbornness. But as the holiday chaos...

In 1950s Montreal, a young student is quietly forced to switch from left to right-handedness-a change that would ripple through his life in subtle and lasting ways. Blen...

This piece is a nostalgic reflection in the form of prose poetry, is on various moments and experiences that have shaped the narrator's life. From the rhythmic clacking...

A raw and introspective journey into the mind of an introvert, this narrative dives into the struggle with overthinking, social isolation, and the battle for self-accept...

This is a personal essay I did for English class.

This personal essay explores the author's lifelong aversion to sports and physical education, tracing their experiences from traumatic PE classes and swimming lessons to...

A personal mini-essay. A little, late night reflection.

This poignant piece chronicles a serendipitous reconnection between old friends, sparked by a vivid dream. This is literary non-fiction. The narrator's search for R, a...

My ongoing personal journey with ADHD

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

A personal essay I wrote while in college (2022)

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...

an essay on loss and the inevitability of change

essentially a practice Journal. It's a strange amalgamation of just essays, short stories, and general schtuff.

"Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem." - Anne Sexton

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...

Personal essay on the new year, and growing old.