The man arrived in a shining and beautiful sky dimension, the inhabitants of the place began to make fun of his horns and skeletal wings. He tried to politely ask them to stop, but they wouldn’t stop. Finally, he forcefully and aggressively said, “I never belonged here anyway.”...
Looking back, I am surprised that nobody thought of me as a freak. They should have. I looked different than Elliott and all his friends. My hands were deformed. My head was too big. I was chubby. But they were so nice to me. They took me in as one of their own. They were my true friends.
Of course, they knew I was lost. And they knew that my parents would not have abandoned me in a stra...
I was sitting on the top bunk, my feet dangling from the side. The prison had been on lockdown for four days now. Tony, my cellie, was sitting at the small table bolted to the wall. He was flipping through an old magazine. Four days is a long time to be locked in a 6-by-8-foot cell.
“A lion? Are you crazy, man?” Tony jumped up, animated as always, rumbling on about how ...
I never speak. I never sigh. I never say anything, and no one asks why. But when I speak, it's as if I never made a sound. Not even a peep. As if my words were muffled, by a hand over my mouth. As if I were invisible to the human eye. A ghost that's yet to die.
But when you made me known and you had the heart to show me, I became a glutton.
I wanted to be out and not shut in. Every thing and pers...
Belong. Such a strong word. Whether you fit in with the puzzle, or just a swapped piece. Whether you are white sheep or a black sheep.
Whether you feel welcome.
I never belonged in my family. They are short, black hairand dark skinned, and I’m tall, red hair and light skinned, or aka, I’m adopted and their not. They pitied me when I was young, but now I’m “not worth working for.”
Nova would have thought the castle had more important matters to attend to but here she is. It just takes her presence in the training grounds for people to start whispering behind her back.
But if they had any guts, they would say it to her face.
It is really easy to say things when you think they can’t hear you. She would love to see their expressions in front of her wit...
