[Warning: less-than-consensual prostitution]

( cut for that and for NSFW language )

[Multiple potential-trigger topics here, just so you know.]

There are far too many people who are WRONG ON THE INTERNET where I can see it. I imagine this is true for most of us.

Normally, I don't respond, because the Drama Potential and Time Investment are greater than the Satisfaction of Being Right. The few times I do directly respond, there ( Read more... )

I spent my first two summers in the Center for Talented Youth program working on my writing. For three weeks, I spent eight hours a day, five days a week on writing, reading about writing, reading and critiquing classmates' writing, collaboratively writing plays, and generally having a wonderful time being a teenage writer ( Read more... )

[Warning: domestic violence]

I'm angry. Really angry.

This wasn't what I thought I was going to write about, and I wish I wasn't writing it.

But here it is:

A young woman who is very dear to me just walked out on her boyfriend of several years, with their baby in tow.

And, as is so often the case when this sort of thing happens, and has been ( Read more... )

When I was a little girl, I confessed my little, childish sins to the “nice” priest, the older one, relieved that it wasn’t the one who I thought would laugh at me ( Read more... )

[Warnings: child abuse, domestic violence]

She learned to look for the Crazy Eyes when she was little. How little, she couldn't remember. Little.

Back then, she thought only her father had Crazy Eyes, and only sometimes. Crazy Eyes meant stay away as much as possible. Crazy Eyes meant, if he said something, to do exactly and only what he said ( Read more... )

Five...

I can't remember not knowing how to read ( Read more... )

At least I hope so!

Time to play LJ Idol - Exhibit A