Jazmine Brewer
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One Little Piece
They had been trying to get her to speak for days. At least four. Maybe five. It was all starting to blend together. The day of the wedding, she was at her worst. She didn't just not talk. She stared through everyone as if they weren't there. Her mother, Elise, finally got tired of it.
By Jazmine Brewer5 years ago in Fiction
A Different Language
Every word that I speak feels foreign to me. Almost unnatural. Even as I speak, I second-guess all of it, wondering if I have articulated what I said properly. I have been told countless times how good of a listener I am, but I almost never say that it's probably because I never know what to say. Or, maybe it was really that I never knew how to say it. When I do decide to open my mouth and respond, every possible question runs through my mind. Did I say the right thing? Should I have been more gentle? Did they no longer like me because of what I said? Yet, I thrive being around people. For so long, I feared being alone more than I cared to admit, but the times when I am alone, makes me appreciate when I am with others. It is just that I have never been able to say, in my voice, how hard it actually is for me to communicate in a way that everyone else seems to do so effortlessly.
By Jazmine Brewer5 years ago in Humans
