depression - Stories

A receptacle for my attempts at translating other poets’ work.

Forced to grow up quicker than most teenagers at eighteen Joshua is far more independent that anyone else his age. What if there is an irreparable rift between the one person who is supposed to understand you the most...your twin? Josh and Joe are completely identical but are different in every way possible. Joe is on a football scholarship and very popular with an amazing girlfriend. Josh is more reserved, throws himself into work to avoid his twin and the growing anxiety that he will never fill this void that's weighing him down.

Responses to AC Benus' Zero to Hero: a Guide / Forty step-by-step do-it-yourself prompts.

Jesse went up into the mountain to retreat from everything, which is why the last thing he was expecting was to see his best friends cousin show up at the door, needing a safe haven too. Will he be able to conquer the fears that sent him running, or will his attempt to leave the mountain cost him his life?

I am dealing with chronic depression and panic attacks. This is my journey to try to make sense of it all.

This is a story written in 300 letters.

Letters, that I wrote in a tiny prison cell to someone, who used to be my boyfriend.

These letters have never been sent.

This is my story of finding the light in the darkest of places.

After losing his father and best friend, watch what happens when newly single Nick Davis finds himself in the arms of new boy Elliott Guinn. Will his ex get the best of him and lure Nick back into his arms, will the sweet heart win him over? Not even I know, and I’m the sassiest queen you’ll ever meet, mmm!

Hope you find out with us. See ya!

With sass,

Sienna Jones

Three souls from three different times mysteriously entwined: Thomas from 1929, Johnny from 1959, Jude from 2019. Each have lived in the lighthouse, a lighthouse that is full of beauty and mystery. The mystery of the story is how these three souls are connected.

This a love story. A challenging, bittersweet romance between a poet and a painter. Tarek loves Tommy, who suffers from depression and mental illness. They are happy – for a time.

Gary's best friend, Jace, has just been dumped by someone he really cared for. While trying to console him, will sympathy be confused with something else? Or is a hug all that is needed to get through the night?

Submitted for the "Good intentions" Anthology.

Poems for Brian

Liam Taylor is finally at the stupor of his life. His deadline is approaching for his latest true crime work, his best friend is any and all liquor, and his real best friend is his supplier. He's still haunted by what could have been, and what should have been, after the event that tore his family apart.

That all is, until a young boy comes into his midst: his dead twin brother, Noah.

And a serial killer with a new potential victim.

Just some of my thoughts in poetic form.

"The child lay in his bed, curled up into a fetal position as he stared at the door across from him. It wasn't a door. It was a giant flab of flesh, glowing like when you put a flashlight under your hand, and breathing like a lung. It breathed slowly, filling with air and then flattening out. Then it breathed again. The boy was too scared to close his eyes, so he stared at the door that never left his room. It had been there for months. Haunting the child. Traumatizing him."

When a father's son goes missing, he has to venture into a world of nonsense and horror to bring him back.

Four queer boys from very different backgrounds come of age together in their final school years, learning what it truly means to love and to hate, to cry and to laugh, to struggle and to succeed.