Straight Lines, Not a Straight Spine
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  • Reads 534
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  • Parts 13
  • Time 55m
Ongoing, First published May 23, 2018
This is based on what I've been (and going) through and names have been changed for privacy. 
I want to let people know that this is a hard battle to fight, but there are people who will willingly fight with you. I want to also show anyone who stumbled across this and is dealing with something else that we fight with you and feel your pain, even if it's not the same. If you haven't dealt with pain and strife yet, get ready. I know that's grim, but our hard-fought battles are what shape us, not our accomplishments. We're all fighters inside; I think that my fight now is going to mold me into a powerful woman and everyone will soon see that. 
I just got rid of my brace, but there aren't too many stories, and they're mostly about surgery or are incomplete. I want people to know that there can be success, even if it's rare.
I'm also pretty obsessed with Broadway musicals; "Anastasia" in particular. I learned from Anya that most people travel across continents to find themselves. Others travel with their family and friends and lovers to find themselves. Some people travel through time (no, not with a time machine) to find themselves. I fit there. You might fit somewhere else. But we can't find ourselves staying still and feeling sorry for ourselves. Thank you. That's my two cents.
Also, I think I'll tell you one of the songs I like listening to at the beginning of each chapter. Please let me know if I should. I think it would be cool. Also, the songs probably won't relate to the chapter itself.
Also, my extra thoughts will usually be in parentheses. Or the parentheses will be explaining things.
I know this is a random blurb and you want to know where this is going to go, but I thought I should tell you. Now (hopefully) without further ado, our story begins. . .
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41 parts Complete Mature

The world is screwed up place. Everyone in it just wants peace when it isn't promised to nobody. We work for ourselves to try to improve our ways of life only for someone who has more to take it. Everything is about monetary gain and if you don't got the green you better have a way to survive. Help wont come when you need it. There is no home and having shame is a simple thing of the past. We all tell people to have hope. We tell them that if they work hard enough that change will eventually come and with that change they will find their happy ending. I've watched humans kill for that happy ending. I've committed murder when a tyrant thought to torture the only good thing in this world I have ever found in this fucked up place. Even when I tried to save it, I still lost it. Yeah, you heard right. I am no saint. This world is far from cupcake and t ,rainbows and their isn't not one soul that could tell me different. I have had to fight to survive since the day I lii I broke out of an egg into this world. No one has ever known where I came from and from the moment I got here I've never know any kindness. I have always been the odd one out because I was different. I'm not talking different just because the color of my skin. I'm talking different because when I get well and truly pissed I turn into a vicious monster. I'm not talking a kiddie monster like the one that creeps under your bed while you are sleeping or chooses to hide in your closet. I'm the type that you cant get away from. I travel through space and time. If I want you, I will have you. I have the powers of invisibility on my side, and you will never see me coming. There is no one that can catch me because I can poof away at the drop of a hat. If that doesn't scare you than the thousands of scars on my body and my size definitely will. But who cares about that shit anyway. Looks aren't everything. I am Maximus.