With every drop of blood, by James Lincoln Collier Summary: This novel follows the travel between 14-year-old Johnny and Cush. The setting is set during the Civil War, in the state of Virginia. Johnny is a young man whose father is off to combat in the Civil War. He had work to do whilst he was in wait for his father's return. This was until his father arrived home too damaged to attribute to the household.…
''Then I guess I'll have to learn to take care of myself while you solve personal issues, some shady business without a doubt.'' In all fairness, Dracula needed Renfield in order to survive changes of the new world. He was the only person with the full insight to his life, a friend even. Pointing to a small stand with a wide variety of drinks, he leaned across the table. ''…
I don't think I'll ever forget myself as I was just then; my legs sprawled up on the picnic table and back arched to try and conform to the rigid wooden chair that would never be comfortable. My eyes were shut, and my sigh was soft. My chest hurt, but not in a broken-hearted kind of way. It was actually physical, but I tried to ignore it. I felt like crying for no reason, but I didn't.…
Enpiezo I ask that you do, to stop, I start to scream from the pain I feel when the knife fits leg. Just cry and cry to stop until my throat feel sore from screaming and then nothing, I feel nothing. Tears they keep out and just do nothing. "It's for your own good" only I hear his footsteps away and the sound of a door open and shut and then again darkness, remembering everything that just happened.…
Jeremy, Well I had a great time, they are a great gang...and NEVER boring. I really can't wait for you to meet them all. Heather said It was great to have me back, I told her I was the missing piece (which I was). Heather Johnna and I are the 3 of this generation. Brenda, Mike and Connie, JR didn't have any kids so the "sisters" were all 4 our mothers.…
It also explains how the mechanisms behind self harm and how it originated from a survival mechanism called the fight or flight response. This documentary also explores some environmental factors that can contribute to self harm, such as parental attachment and technological advancements. The documentary also explores the stories of three young women who self harm as a way of coping from emotional pain. These stories examine why self harm is done, how they fell about doing it and why the do it. Through one of these stories, it is shown that replacing self harm with another coping technique called mindfulness can lead to changes in…
When I was fifteen my mom had decided to uproot our lives in Michigan to move to a small town in Florida. It started when my mom fell in love with a business partner, Keith, whom she had talked on the phone with for months. She then had flown to Florida to meet with him several times for over the course of a year. When they decided that they could no longer live apart, the decision was made that my mom and I would move from everything we had ever known, to move to a small Florida town. At the time I thought this was the worst thing that could ever happen to my fifteen year old self, however, our move turned out to be the best decision my mom had ever made.…
I nestled in the suffocating sheets of the bedding in my room, the room I had been confined to since the tragedy. The tragedy that twisted my once perfect life into a tumbling spiral of pure sorrow that I couldn't grasp. I breathed raggedly peering into the complete blackness of the room. I listened to the constant echoes of the machines that pumped medicine into my fragile body. I felt that I didn't deserve it because of the misfortunes that I caused.…