Category "Identity"

*Disclaimer: To those of you who hate and fear bugs, please brave your fear and continue reading. Lucy the ladybug has a pretty good life. Lots to eat, wings she can use to fly, and a colorful outfit to boot. But one day Lucy sees Doris the doodlebug. Doris’s whole life is a party – […]

Boy meets girl, they “fall in love,” they jump in bed together, and then grow up and move miles apart. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t end there. If having sex before marriage wasn’t bad enough, this pair of high school sweethearts return to their hometown many years later and decide to hook up again. There’s a […]

I looked at the card and shoved it in my wallet. A recruiter for a local modeling agency was trying to convince me to pursue a career in the industry. I smiled at the woman and said, “I’ll think about it.” then walked away. I was seventeen or eighteen years old at this time. I […]

There I was, waking up every morning with a new resolve to not eat as much as I did the day before. I was determined to eat less so I didnʼt gain weight, but every day it seemed like I failed. My thoughts as I stood in front of the mirror went something like this: […]

School is starting and that means college will be commencing soon too. All of your friends are going off to college and you feel left out, shied into a corner, and stuffed into a box with the rest of your homeschooled friends. What’s worse is that maybe you’re old enough to have a boyfriend now […]

Meet Jenny. She’s a tall and lanky high school girl who wishes she was shorter and prettier. Jenny hates the way she looks. She’s never had a boyfriend and blames it on the fact that she’s too tall and too ugly. Years of bitterness and anger turn Jenny into a depressed young woman. Her parents […]