Rooted Stories

Short stories and poems of the different stages that I've gone through, acknowledging my traumas and finding ways to mold my self into the best version of me. This is also an opportunity for me to share some of my submissions in my creative writing class

Can you see it's subtlety? Can you feel it's guiding hand? So dare to be wise, begin to and it shall be. So dare to enter and unveil thy mentality.

She thought she was just falling in love. Years later, she realizes she was becoming herself. Lauren never expected her last years of high school to shape everything that came after. At eighteen she's cautious, quiet, and content to follow the rules-but first love has a way of unmaking certainties. What begins as innocent glances and late-night conversations soon draws her into choices she never imagined: love that feels like freedom, heartbreak that leaves a mark, and questions that refuse to stay quiet. Told through Lauren's journals and her reflections years later, Yield is a coming-of-age story about first love, first mistakes, and the fragile line between who we are told to be and who we choose to become. Honest, tender, and deeply human, this is a story about the girl you once were-and the woman she grows into.

A long-buried skeleton fused with ancient antlers begins to rise after a landslide exposes its ritual grave, stalking the nearby forest as it hunts for the ones who once imprisoned it.

A collection of poetry from this year while I have been dealing with graduation and the loss of my grandfather and trying to figure out my purpose here. I hope in someway my inklings can help someone else.

A collection of poems rooted in nature.

My story could be titled, "Trauma, an Epic." Break the cycle. Trauma only defines you, if you allow it to. I share my stories in hope it will help everyone who feels alone with PTSD / panic / anxiety / and childhood or adult trauma.