Someone chooses to hurt and kill teenage girls to make a fucked up point. Bad shit changes us. It makes us afraid. That fear maybe makes us have unkind and unpleasant thoughts about different people, different religions, different places. It maybe makes us into people we don’t want to ...
My dad told me he was going to keep talking to the parents but I was completely done seeing someone hurt this tiny, incredibly sweet little dog, and decided I’d get these kids to stop my own way. So I sat outside near the garage where I wouldn’t be noticeable and waited with the...
A roll of thunder crashed and a sheet of rain hurtled out of the sky. Alan never thought of himself as a violent person. Even when he'd had to throw the occasional troublemaker out of his shops, he'd done so with an almost cordial force. Now, though, he trembled and yearned to ...
It is cool because I haven't done this for a while. Every time I come here I laugh and watch the people fall down, but I never come and skate myself. I am so out of shape. I think it's only been 15 minutes and my thighs hurt already. I stop to lean on the rail and wait...
Things had happened that hurt me and distanced me from others. I’d fallen and failed and frozen in place and thought to myself, what good can ever come from ‘this’, whatever ‘this’ was. Perhaps you’ve experienced your own challenges, pain, frustration and resentments in your life....