Memoirmonth Stories

You'd think seeing a dog getting the shit knocked out of it on my first evening out as a teenager would give me pause. Nope. It marked what would eventually happen to me, as tried to escape my dysfunctional family, but managed to mess my life up with drugs, females, and alcohol.

''Free as a bird'', is a phrase I have always loved...watching them soar in the sky gives me a feeling of liberation which I have always wanted to achieve!

This is a glimpse into the diary of a girl in love.

Excerpted from the longer work HyperLife, this vignette captures the essence of a time of life (and history) where everything seemed possible...

The story of my life in one place. Caution I'm a depressed fangirl.

A short story about a girl I met in Istanbul.

'Why did you leave me? Why did you get messed up with all of those drugs? Why did you kill my brother and sister? Didn't you love us enough?' Nikkia Roberson has been asking these questions for most of her life. But how else do you cope when your mentally ill mother has killed your little brother and sister by scalding them with boiling water? This is a harrowing true story of how one little girl endured the most tragic of childhoods. But it's also the ultimate tale of forgiveness. Follow Nikkia on her heartbreaking journey, as she attempts to find answers and rekindle a relationship with her mother behind the gates of a secure psychiatric hospital. Deeply moving, Mummy is a Killer proves that love really is the strongest emotion of all.

I rode the elevated train in Chicago to my first job just west of the Loop. Waiting on the platform by the Merchandise Mart for the train home I saw her, a vision. After a number of sightings I worked up the nerve to talk to her, and ask her out in my bumbling way.

** Winner of The Watty's 2014: Collector's Dream Award ** ** This is a true story. Now FULLY edited ** I was diagnosed with Cancer a week before my 16th Birthday. I had Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and had to undergo Chemotherapy and a Stem Cell transplant, back in 2003. My whole life changed. I wrote this book when I was 17, when all my treatment was over, to catalogue everything I had learned and experienced. I had no information about Cancer during my treatment; it was all aimed at adults and I was a teenager who didn't understand most of what happened. So I wrote this book. I was a teenager when I wrote, when I had Cancer and I wanted this to be an information, honest account of what it was really like to have Cancer and go through the treatment....from a teenager's perspective. It's sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always honest. There may be parts that you squint at, because you're embarrassed to read them...well, I was embarrassed writing them. But that's the whole point of honesty. To get it out in the open. To be real. And that's what this is.

Mr. Drake is out sick, and we get an intense new substitute. (Non-Fiction #125) | cover by @seanarturo |

A counter-revolution brews in Northern Quebec when the French-language bill passes in the South. Teachers are caught in the middle, between threats of violence and the need to party.

we do learn from our previous love

All of the stuff that is in here is all the stuff that's happened to me. You may or may not cry, I don't know. But this me and what I've basically been through.

A story of a young girl who found happiness but ended with a broken heart. (Based on a true story) © Schuyler Gabrielle, 2014. All rights reserved. *BOOK COVER: @eclectic_

This is a memoir I wrote for my 11th grade English class about my experiences and thoughts as I watched my grandmother deteriorate from Alzheimer's Disease.