Anonymous Slug

Asian-American, Story

No Grit No Gain This is a story about how I learned how to use grit to persevere through life. dying was not enough after a while, and it became apparent in ninth grade when I was taking algebra 2. For the first time in my life, I ran head first into having...

Fahed Anon.

Male, Other, Story

Untitled Waking up on that hospital bed on a Monday afternoon, I had absolutely no sense of direction, nor did I understand how my life would play out from then on. In my sophomore year, I came to a grim realization that I essentially had no control over my life, and...

Noelle Videon

Female, Story, White

Untitled It’ so easy to talk about how wonderful a person was after they die. But Ashley really was special. I knew this when she was alive, though. She taught me so many things through the 4 years I was lucky enough to call her a friend; And much more bitter...

Lizbeth Anon.

Female, Latinx/Chicanx, Story

Untitled It all started with an egg. As thousands of sperm rushed to fertilize that one egg, a battle for survival began. Fortunately, a sperm was able to fertilize the egg and that union created me. From the very beginning I was a survivor. Out of those thousands of...