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• Nonfiction > Heroes
  A Tiger Mother's Slumber

  

  By Chaness1000, Tenafly, NJ

  There were times when I was little, when I’d sit on the cold marble steps in front of my room, crying for hours and hours. Tears gushed from my eyes like a pipe with a leak, streaking down my arm in a kamikaze mission towards the wooden floor. By the end of it, the fallen warriors had collected in...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Daddy's Little Girl

  

  By Chaness1000, Tenafly, NJ

  I love my Daddy. He’s a dream Daddy. He does Terminator impressions, Kung Fu Panda poses, and dances to 80’s music. He glowers at my boyfriends, worries about me walking to school, and sneaks me junk food when I’m sad. He brags about my accomplishments, hangs every award I’ve ever gotten, ...
• Fiction > All Fiction
  My Cruel Fate

  

  By Chaness1000, Tenafly, NJ

  It's cold. It's always cold, even in the summer, I shiver as I sleep on the dirty cement floor feeling my loneliness wrap around me. Everyday I'm put to work, digging and digging, grave after grave. Rough hands grip me, muddy books kick me and insults break me. Never am I allowed resp...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  All Alone

  

  By Chaness1000, Tenafly, NJ

  Although I find myself in the center of the “crowd,” now, I never was before. Not many people realize that to become “one” of “them”, you have to change yourself, or put on an act for the rest of the world to see. Nobody remembers, or wants to remember the type of person I was few year...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  Walk Away and Don't Look Back

  

  By Chaness1000, Tenafly, NJ

  Walk Away and Don’t Look Back “Grab everything in your locker and come out. We only have 10 minutes, throw away anything that you don’t need. Hurry!” My mom beckoned out of the car, and I opened the car door and stepped out into the bright sunlight. I walked briskly through the front do...