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Tag: youth

Liberteens

“Located in a peaceful and secluded part of Southgate, Priory Hospital North London is set within a striking Grade I … More

addiction, alcohol, childhood, drugs, memories, mental illness, nostalgia, overdose, poem, poetry, teenage, teenagers, teens, youth

All Roads Lead to Seven Sisters

1. I am standing on an upturned bin looking through the little barred window into the room that I was … More

city, CNF, London, memoir, memory, poem, poems, poetry, self portrait, triptych, writing, youth

& party & bullshit

So we were at this house party and I was sitting in the kitchen sink drinking lukewarm vodka out of … More

alcohol, CNF, creative non fiction, drugs, life, memoir, party, prose, sex, short prose, student life, university, writing, youth

Tracks

This CNF piece, a mash-up of two old works of mine, was a runner-up in Dead Fern Press‘ Valentine’s Content … More

love, memoir, mental illness, prose, relationships, romance, short prose, suicide, teenagers, Valentine's, writing, youth

Half-Life

Ashley told us that every time you do a line of cocaine it makes loads of microscopic holes in your … More

addiction, advice, body, drug abuse, drugs, friendship, memory, poem, poetry, psychology, science, student life, writing, youth

Words For Life

DESIDERATA Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far … More

advice, existence, happiness, humanity, kindness, knowledge, life, mental health, nature, peace, poem, poetry, self, silence, society, youth

My New Friend

“Hey, kid, where’s your mama?” “At work,” she says. “What about your dad?” “Gone.” I flinch for a moment, wondering … More

advice, childhood, conversation, danger, dialogue, friendship, girls, learning, life, safety, short prose, strangers, women, writing, youth

J.H.C.

The guy standing next to me at the bar is wearing Joop! Jump. That smell always makes me think of … More

childhood, fear, fuck you, girl power, journal, memory, men, nostalgia, power, relationships, sex, writing, youth

Bones

[Part of the Body Series] Skull: frontal cranial bone: a neat linear fracture: above right eye, below hairline: wish I knew … More

body, body image, experience, experimental, health, injury, life, pain, prosetry, reflection, self, self portrait, series, writing, youth

2504

A poem for the 25th day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo based on the prompt to write a poem “specific to a season.” … More

chaos, city, danger, GloPoWriMo, life, London, NaPoWriMo, poem, poetry, prompt, psychosis, summer, teenagers, writing, youth

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