It’s hard to be inconspicuous when you’re hanging upside down. It wasn’t my first choice of hiding place. If you ask me how I got up here the answer is I don’t know. I panicked. I panicked and instead of going into the wardrobe or locking myself in the bathroom.

There’s a hole below me big enough for me to fall through but not big enough for people to look up into and notice me. I didn’t want th...

“I love you.” He blurts. The words will never come out right. He didn’t mean to yell them at her. Those three words will just never leave his mouth when he tries to tell her. They get stuck in his throat forming a lump that he can’t swallow but can’t get out his mouth either so it sits there and taunts him.

“No.” She says turning around slowly.

“No? What do you mean no?” I ask quickly. “I do l...

It doesn’t feel the same,

I can’t hear kids screaming at the park across the road as they swing on the swings

or spin on the merry-go-round,

there’s no ice cream truck around,

just me and my home,

No.

This house

I grew up,

I see flaws in the world,

I don’t have the naivety anymore,

I don’t get shielded from the problems of the world anymore,

I would give everything to go back to a time where...

Waiting is not a cause of death. You never see it written on a birth certificate. Cause of death: waiting. It almost sounds funny but I feel like waiting will be the cause of mine. What am I waiting for? For my dog to die.

I lost my home. It was messy it was rough but I kept my dog. I almost wish I hadn’t. I can’t provide for Bitter. When I had house and a job and friends and a functioning life ...