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Kay Smith

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The Glenn

My hands are digging into my hair wishing they could penetrate my head and grab my brain right out of its safe space. Sometimes I think it is taunting me, like it's a kid playing tag, sitting in the designated safe space laughing because there’s nothing I can do. Expect, of course, if I broke the rules, stepped right into the safe zone and laid two hands on his shoulders.But no, the rules tell me that I cannot just pull my brain out of my head. Instead, I have to try and reason with it. Reader, do you have any idea how hard it is trying to w...

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Yellow Socks

Weekly Contest #321

Trigger Warning:- sexual violence- mental health - substance abuse - physical violence- suicide or self harm She would always go there on a bad day, and today was particularly troubling. It was a tree, about 30 minutes into the woods if she didn’t get distracted by a butterfly or stop to try and decipher which tree the woodpecker chose to torment that day. Only 13, one might assume Rachel’s parents would be concerned about having their daughter go missing for hours on end, but they never came to look for her. Her mother spent all her days ...

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