Latest Stories
Most recently published stories in Humans.
Hospital Love
The hospital chairs were anything but comfy, the TV in the background droning on and on about what was happening in the world. Riley sleeping thanks to the medication, soundly. I’ve been here for weeks. Sitting by her side, fighting her on eating, brushing her hair so that it wouldn’t get matted and form a horrible knot. She shouldn’t be here. She was too young.
By Kelly Hoerl8 years ago in Humans
Situationships
The beginning... You've all had that childhood sweetheart right? That one guy at school you thought would be your forever and that you'd get married, buy the dream mansion, go on romantic holidays and have 6 babies (4 boys, 2 girls) and live happily ever after. Yeah... Me too. And I know, our expectations were clearly too high because that is definitely not—and rarely ever—how it pans out.
By Lauren Atkiss8 years ago in Humans
New Life
My story is about starting a new life after 16 years, in another country. It is still hard for me to believe how my life has turned 180 degrees in three hours; as I have moved to Scotland from Hungary, which takes three hours journey on a plane. I hated, but also loved that day because it was so hard for me to leave everything behind...my family, my friends, my old high school, and my home. But I was excited at the same time for my future, which I believed would turn out pretty good.
By Celiina Peltzer8 years ago in Humans
Journal Entries (Part I)
INTRODUCTION: I need to keep writing. I don't even care who is listening anymore. I have too much to say. I am going to find more time to write and publish entries, so I can keep my sanity. Well, there are lots of reasons I need to write more. Well, three reasons. ONE: I need to get better at writing. I used to write a lot more and I was better back then. I know practice will help boost my creativity and hopefully make me a slightly better writer. TWO: I have been having very bad anxiety recently and I always used to write to help my anxious mind find a little bit of an escape. Sometimes I feel like my thoughts can kill me. I am spiritual and I believe that the things you think about do produce a certain energy into the universe and can have effects on the future events of your life. I know this might sound crazy, but all my life I have felt a heightened sense of awareness of my thoughts and how my thought patterns seemed to attract certain things into my life. It is strange and in some cases its what makes me so anxious, just knowing or feeling like your thought patterns really do have an effect on your life and what happens to you. I have experienced these things in both negative and positive ways. I will write about these things later on, probably. THREE: Now, for the third reason, I want to write down my experiences to remember them and reflect on them one day in the future. I am 18 years old right now, 19 in less than a month... I want this to be a place where I can be as vulgar and explicit as I want. I want to share my world, because we all have our own definitions of what the world is because we all view it differently, so fuck it. Why not tell your story?
By Kara Vanessa8 years ago in Humans
My Love Story (Part 2)
When I found out that I was pregnant, I was 19-years-old, attending my first year at community college and working at a daycare as a teacher’s aide. I was nowhere close to where I wanted to be in life. I was still in love with my ex. I was terrified and I had no idea what to expect. When my ex and I were trying to be friends, he opened up about how he never had feelings for me. Then all of these thoughts started popping up in my head. He strung me along in a relationship he didn't want to be in. All of those times that he had said that he ever loved me was a complete lie. Why did he beg me for another chance and made me believe that he didn't mean what he had said, if he really didn't want to be with me? More than anything, I was pissed off and said some really ugly and mean things to him.
By Ameenah M.8 years ago in Humans
My Love and Struggles
My love for my boyfriend is like no other love. The love I have for him is like you're floating on air. When I first met my boyfriend, it was like time just stopped and I was feeling like I knew him from somewhere before. My boyfriend and I went to high school together and became friends before we started a relationship. I will admit that we had our ups and downs during our relationship but we make it work. Right now my boyfriend and I are trying to figure out what we're going to do financially if I got pregnant again. My boyfriend has been stressing out about a lot of things but I try my best to be there for him because that's how much I love him.
By Carrie Booth8 years ago in Humans
Object of Antipathy
Light filters through the gap between the half-drawn curtains, beams stretching out to caress the beads held tight in Sian's hand. Once again, she had woken up before her 8 AM alarm and, once again, she had reached out to feel those worry beads.
By Keenia Dyer-Williams8 years ago in Humans
He's Like an Old Record
There's this store I found out about around a year ago, that still sells vinyl. Those big, beautiful black round pieces of magic, that spin my soul into a musical typhoon. I go there on Saturdays, and dig through the crates. I usually have a few specific selections in mind when I go, but I always grab a lil somethin' extra. I can't help myself... I get lost in the moment.
By Cheryl Marlowe8 years ago in Humans
Toxic Friendships
Throughout my life, I have endured friendships full of hatred and toxic mannerisms. I always believed the longest you'd known your friends, the more they loved you and would stick around through anything; but now I know its quality over quantity. I'm now out of the hellish friendship group I spent four years with, and now I'm with a friendship group I've known for a year and they know me more than anyone ever did. Spotting a toxic relationship is very difficult when you're the victim. You always second guess but think highly of them and believe they'd never hurt you. As a matter of fact, it's bullying, it's a lead up of bringing you down, talking behind your back, and never being there. The red flags really come down to the fact that you know you never get anything good out of the friendship. My relationship with one girl in particular was like a boomerang; one minute she would be with me and she would act like a friend, next minute she would come back around and she would be manipulative and would degrade me from the smallest things. My experience led me to damaging my own body so that I suited their needs and pleased them and not myself. Throughout the group, it was constant drama and bitching about each other to the other girls. It was not healthy! That I knew, but I was too scared to leave; knowing I would have no friends and in fear they would tell my secrets to other people—which I knew they were capable of. I decided to wait until I left high school, which was never a good idea because it was still difficult. One day I just had enough and left and blocked them on all social media so they could forget about me and I could forget about them. As for now, I feel so much better. I'm beginning to love myself. I'm beginning to find better people.
By Jodie harris8 years ago in Humans
