fact or fiction
Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about our family dynamics, traditions, and if there's such thing as a 'perfect family.'
Into The History Of A Family Mystery
Part 1 The appearance I’m in somewhere dark, blindfolded, and I’m strapped to a chair. I try to move and feel my hands and feet are tied together. I’m scrambling thoughts together as to where I could be, what’s about to happen and why am I here. I begin to take deep breaths and count “1…2…3…” after that I’m thinking “Okay my sense of smell works let me try to get clues from what I can smell.” I take in a scent of repulsive garbage, I can smell seaweed, I can smell gasoline… “This must be a dump by some water…maybe I’m outside the city.” I thought. I could hear the water, I could hear the noises of birds, I could hear what sounded like distant city noise or a nearby concert. I couldn’t remember anything about last night clearly, my head hurt, my neck had a burning sensation, and again I tried to muster up a scream, a sound, anything. I got nothing.
By Imani Cunningham6 years ago in Families
The Dead-end Town
The smell of freshly mowed lawn and heat, pure heat overwhelm my senses as I walk down this street in the town that made me. The sun setting sets a orangish glow to the buildings that frame this dead street in this dead end town that I left oh so many years ago. I had promised myself I would never return and yet here I am going back on my meaningless words. I never thought he’d die.
By Arianna Nyswonger6 years ago in Families
How India Is Co-Opting Individualism With Collectivism?
Growing up in an Indian family, you usually get accustomed to hearing from your parents and grandparents how they once lived in a joint family (some of you might still be living in it). You get ‘advised’ by your parents on the stream you should choose in senior school, college entrances you ought to give, and even whom you should marry (no value judgments about that).
By The Rashtra6 years ago in Families
The Buddy System
Fish was aware of blue water shimmering and dancing: it seemed all around her as she began her approach. One-two-three-and-hurdle. The springboard gave way beneath her and then she was airborne. At the top of her lift, she hung in the air for just a moment before beginning her downward flight – for just long enough to see them sitting in the stands, side by side, looking up at her.
By Roberta Carly Redford6 years ago in Families
3 Househelps Caught Doing The Unthinkable.
3 unbelievable stories. Househelps. They come in many shapes and sizes. They come to serve many different purposes. Some help is needed to assist with household chores around the house, especially so if it's a big family seeking assistance. Some other help is for the older people who need help taking care of themselves. And then there are the househelps hired by the affluent to take care of all the menial and strenuous jobs they'd much rather not do.
By Jide Okonjo6 years ago in Families
continue of Bitter Kiss
. . . she did the first time she saw him. She was the only friend the young boy had, the only person who gave him love. Days flew into weeks, and months turned into years. When the man would come home late from a night of drinking at the pub, the child laid in his bed unable to sleep, only hearing the muffled cries of his grown father. He could hear the sweet confronts his mother tried desperately to offer to her husband, though he wouldn’t take any. Sometimes the man would push the wooden door open, yelling and screaming at the top of his lungs. He didn’t understand what happened. What went wrong? This terrible demon child could only be a curse from God, that could only fall upon the womb. The hurt child stared at the darkness in his room, as he heard what his father said, he pictured the man staggering, swaying drunkenly, pointing a finger at the child’s mother, while these vile things slurred out of his mouth.
By Julie Unruh6 years ago in Families
IS he Mr. Right part II
Hi, your friend Gin is back! Hope everyone is enjoying my story as much as I am enjoying telling it. My daughter, Amanda (Mandi) called and corrected me on her birthday; I apologize for the incorrect information, her birthday is June 19th, 1990; YUP the BIG 30 this year (she has a boy toddler)!!!! That sure makes me feel kind of old; plus the fact I have a almost 41 year old daughter and she has 6 children; her oldest son had a baby boy earlier this year and now she has a daughter that is getting ready to have a baby girl; I am blessed beyond words!! I hope and pray that I will get to meet them some day! They live in Ohio. That is all I am going to say for now; there WILL be more about them further in the story. I kind of got off the subject of the pregnancy of my daughter so I am going to back up to that and then skip over the part of my mom; I am trying to do all this is order but my mind goes faster than my fingers and I lose train of thought. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
By Virginia Green6 years ago in Families
