Psychosomatic Stories

Cover by kyromaniak Everyone wants to be different. I just want to be like everybody else. ---- Seventeen-year-old chronically ill Emma has traded dreams of flying into space for, "Support Therapy," aka, "The Dying Kids Group," and Student Council events for a nasal cannula. Sweet but a little bitter, Emma faces COPD and PMD head-on, even as her health begins to decline. After all, part of dying is breathing in every moment, and she won't sit around moping when free wheelchair rides and late-night pizza runs with best friends are out there for the taking. Taking care of herself may buy her more time, but what's the point of time if you're not making the most of it? Cadence is her constant. Even when everything seems to be crashing down around her, Emma knows she can count on the pure love of best friends. In this novel in verse, WriteTheBright explores the world of being, "the sick girl," but also the girl who loves science and her mom. It is a reminder that we are all more than our struggles. 1 in #emphysema 2 in #cantbreathe 3 in #copd 6 in #socialworker 6 in #tics 7 in #grouptherapy 8 in #terminalillness 13 in #chronicillness

Mamihlapinatapai (n) - A look shared by two people both wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither of them want to begin.

Mal, constantly plagued by psychosomatic symptoms of his own mind, lives in his room. He soon meets a friend that just might be able to get him the hell out.

Ivy already had an average life with an average family, average friends, and average grades. Get the picture yet? She was happy, until her older sister died and she was thrown into the darkness. Warning -- this may be graphic with a few not so nice words...