Growing Up As An Adult

Joined August 2021

5 stories

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I write about the trials, tribulations, and often uncelebrated successes that come with paving your way through early adulthood.

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Reclaiming Your Dream
I've always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl growing up in the South African countryside, I've been drawn to the written word; to stories of faraway lands bathed in magic and mystery.
By Growing Up As An Adult4 years ago in Motivation
Guardians of the Dark
How humiliating. Utterly mortifying. To wake up in the Collection Point infirmary and see a clip of my unconscious body being carried off in front the entire city. Over and over on replay, broadcasted on every channel.
By Growing Up As An Adult4 years ago in Fiction
Guardians of the Dark
Sleep has abandoned me, forced me to lie awake, counting the water stains on the ceiling until the numbers blur in my mind. Two. Six. Eight. They’re growing by the day, spreading like a sickness, eating at the plaster. I could do something about it, try to treat it, but it’s no use. Nothing heals out here in the Dark.
By Growing Up As An Adult4 years ago in Fiction
Guardians of the Dark
I’ve been thinking a lot about impermanence lately. How something can be here one day and gone the next. Like a life, for instance. Or a brother.
By Growing Up As An Adult4 years ago in Fiction
Guardians of the Dark
Give a man a mask, and he’ll show you his true face. That's what they say, but it’s not as easy when the man is a young boy, and his mask is one of innocence, ignorance.
By Growing Up As An Adult4 years ago in Fiction