Essays in 100 Words

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Truth

You do not know my story.
Do not dare to soften my reality to fit your comfortable limited view.

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Search

An image resides in my head. I have never been able to shake it.
It is indelible.

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Silent

As a child silence was my haven. I learned to be quiet, talk quiet, walk quiet

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Small

How do I explain the limits that a child places on themselves when faced with a certainty of violence?

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Safe

With two words you have unmade me. All my armor is stripped away, my defenses lay at my feet.

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Rising Tide

As a child my task was to conform myself to my confinement.

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Just

Just is a word used to minimize and limit. It saps verbs of their agency.

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Flashback

You feel it, the first tug pulling you down. What was the trigger? A word? A thought?

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Erosion

“You won’t get it.”
That was my father’s response when I told him I was among the finalists for the Morehead Scholarship

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Before Speech

How do you explain a condition that can’t be seen?

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The Gift

There are moments recovering from trauma where your mind connects two unrelated things.

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Remembering

That day, this day, lives in my mind.
The past echoes forward and troubles the present.