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Poem / Poetry

February 25, 2025

A poignant journey of growth, desire, and realization. Read More

Tags: poetry, life, poem, meaning, adulthood

Nearly two years after witnessing the birth of her nephew, 18-year-old Aspen Addison Zhou gives birth to her first child in the presence of her family in rural Belize. Read More

Tags: adult, adulthood, belize, 18, homebirth

A story about leaving your childhood and going into adulthood. Read More

Tags: growing-up, leaving, adulthood

Poem / Poetry

September 10, 2023

Tags: poetry, adulthood

oldest daughter, too much trauma, tearing innocence for experience Read More

Tags: childhood, experience, innocence, adulthood, teen-author

Poem / Other

March 01, 2023

Tags: adulthood

Hello guys ! In these series I would like to share with you my thoughts about adulthood in my 20's with its struggles and benefits. These next paragraphs will always be as true as they can get and I hope you can relate and enjoy and hopefully feel better after… Read More

Tags: love, life, lost, friends, adulthood

A young man returning to his hometown revisits the shrine he came across as a child searching for the goddess that lived there Read More

Tags: youth, supernatural, spirits, adulthood, shrines

Poem / Poetry

September 17, 2020

Reads: 701

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

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This poem was written shortly after my first trip to a psychiatric facility. My breakdown surrounded circumstances of attempting to maintain an appearance of false perfection, because I hated myself for all of my shortcomings. I was a high performing student in an Educational Opportunity Program at the Fashion Institute… Read More

Tags: death, life, growing, adolescence, adulthood

Poem / Poetry

August 13, 2019

Reads: 543

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

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Tags: childhood, reflection, self-worth, adulthood

Poem / Non-Fiction

March 17, 2019

Reads: 917

Comments: 2

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Adulthood creates a slow drift from one's siblings. This poem is an illustration of it. Read More

Tags: brother, birthday, separation, adulthood, big-day

Tags: death, aging, young, growing-up, adulthood

Tags: adulthood, golden-age

This is my dream business, if I become and entrepreneur. Yay. Read More

Tags: life, dreams, business, adulthood, ownership

the scary state of adulthood in my eyes Read More

Tags: society, adulthood

Poem / Young Adult

September 17, 2016

Reads: 847

Comments: 1

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The transit into adulthood can be hard, especially once you find out, that it's not what you thought it would be. The loss of old comfort awakens a longing for better, innocent days to ease the pain and disappointment. Read More

Tags: childhood, reflection, moral, adulthood, childs-eyes

Father Figure is a poem of a woman's struggles of never having a proper relationship with her father and going through life with confusion of what love from a man really is. Read More

Tags: childhood, life, father, adulthood, figure

@me youre so fake deep Read More

Tags: childhood, rant, essay, college, adulthood

Nostalgia for the soul. Read More

Tags: childhood, poem, youth, adulthood, nostalgia

Book / Romance

July 26, 2014

Reads: 529

Comments: 2

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A story about a lifetime friendship, an unrequited love, the inability to say what's in your heart, and a girl who uses the words tucked away in her heart to make love happen for someone else. A bit of a modern Cyrano de Bergerac. Read More

Tags: love, humor, romance, young, growing, adulthood, cyrano

Poem / Poetry

July 12, 2014

Reads: 1274

Comments: 1

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accord star friendship star love star reconciliation star truce star unity star amity star armistice star cessation star conciliation star concord star neutrality star order star pacification star pacifism star treaty star Read More

Tags: love, dark, death, gay, high, dying, god, joy, life, world, progress, passion, story, adventure, father

One boy stands on the edge childhood and finds sanctity in a hot beverage. Read More

Tags: child, coffee, adulthood

What do you feel about how you live your life? Do you feel trapped? Or free? Are you happy? These seemingly unimportant things are the most important in our puny little fragile lives. How would you want to live? Thanks for reading and any sort of feedback is appreciated :D… Read More

Tags: love, childhood, food, life, short, writing, happy, sad, freedom, self, please, live, feel, living, young

A guide to realising you're headed to adulthood without a significant other by your side! Read More

Tags: love, marriage, relationships, growing_up, adulthood, single_life

“Just Before the Bridge” analyses the responsibilities of the parent in ensuring the preparedness of their teen to confront the pressures and conflicts which they will eventually encounter as they journey towards adulthood. There are anecdotes of some people’s experiences as teenagers and how they responded to negative circumstances surrounding… Read More

Tags: parenting, teenagers, development, adulthood

Short Story / Young Adult

August 10, 2013

Reads: 778

Comments: 2

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Looking back on life through a field. Read More

Tags: love, trees, nature, writing, sad, hate, happiness, sadness, betrayal, tree, kiss, growing, peace, believe, graduation

Book / Romance

June 26, 2013

Reads: 1191

Comments: 15

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Bonnie Miller and Jack Walters were meant to be together from the beginning. From the moment they laid eyes on one another in the local second hand book shop. But when faced with many obstacles, their love for one another is put to the test and having to fight for… Read More

Tags: childhood, romance, disease, illness, commitment, adulthood, battle, 94, lovestory

Short Story / Other

June 21, 2013

Reads: 681

Comments: 1

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Josh recently moved out of his parents house after graduating college. His current employer is having trouble and Josh worries he will be laid off. Josh finds an opportunity to interview with a company who's owner was a person he studied while in a business ethics class. It was meant… Read More

Tags: family, adulthood, plot_twist

short poem about something we all think about.. Read More

Tags: joy, laughter, child, memory, times, clock, adulthood, glee

Aiden is still searching for a meaning to his life. He hopes to escape from his frightening childhood with his father. While he longs for a chace to redo his childhood, he still wishes for adulthood in order to be a better father than his own. Read More

Tags: childhood, young_adult, fiction, woman, adulthood, aiden, first_person

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