Tag: mental health

• Out-Rageous Summer

  A Short Story The air didn’t move. It hung heavy with something other than oxygen, or so it seemed. Plastic seats cupped buttocks like warm Tupperware hands which is why some stood. As soon as I saw Marvin leaning against the support pole, daring me to tell him to stop shaking the canopy, I knew…

  CGraith

  June 3, 2023

  micro fiction, Read On – Stories, writing

  anger, camp, community service, Fiction, mental health, summer, teen rage

• See No Evil – 100 Words

  “The human mind does not stay within lines. It adjusts to trauma any way it can, always seeking a way to balance. You know that, right? It was a rhetorical question, of course. At least that’s how Kris took it. No way would she tell her doctor that the reason she could only see in…

  CGraith

  November 9, 2022

  100 Words, photo prompt

  defense mechanism, human mind, mental health, trauma

• One More Thing

  

  Fragile on the edge, A feather touch, To push me, Don’t do it, Don’t believe it Don’t try and see. Where I’ll go, Where I’m going,Losing grip now,Slipping, in the air,No where to land,Pull me back,Catch my line,Won’t you?So close to nothing,So little between,One,More,Thing,And I’m,There.

  CGraith

  July 3, 2021

  Poetry, writing

  mental health, overwhelmed, Poetry, stress, too much stress