STORY STARTER
Submitted by Orelli
I grab my sister's hand and pull her towards the cliff edge with me. She nods slowly in my direction. Then we jump.
Write the story leading up to, or going forward from, here.
Struggles And Hope
This is a poem with nothing to do with the prompt, I wanted to write this
Where do I even start?
The amount of struggles
The amount of hope
I’ll start with the struggles
I have been misgendered
On purpose and by accident
I have struggled to speak
To say who I am
I try
I try
I try
I try
Finally, I say it
Finally, I come out
Finally, I can talk
It’s hard as heck
But I manage
I get curves
Breasts
Hips
Period
Puberty starts
I struggle with attempts
To hide it
To be androgynous
Sometimes I fail
Or I just
Can’t
And people see
They see it all
Gender dysphoria is hell
Now for hope
I bind
I wear baggier clothes
I hide my curves
I cut my hair
I try to be androgynous
I paint my face
I get correctly gendered
I am called by my pronouns
I am asked my pronouns
Instead of assumptions being made
Gender euphoria is wonderful
I AM NON BINARY. STILL QUESTIONING THE SPECIFIC LABEL, IF I EVEN HAVE ONE. MY PRONOUNS ARE THEY/THEM.
Thank you.