Story Category: Other (Life's Difficulties and Triumphs)

 I USED TO THINK I WAS LESBIAN FOR 4 YRS

I think it all started when I met my best friend. she was really pretty so many boys would crush on her. I remember it was the beginning times of our friendship and it was a new year which meant new classes new ppl so that’s where I met her. we became deskmates and realized […]

 Survival and Staying Sane While Taking Photos

A mid life crisis emerged from the deep nearly a year ago.My mid 30’s was fast approaching and I was simmering in the same job for years – no opportunities for growth or improvement, no relationship and no home to call my own.Life just didn’t stack up the way I thought it would.Therapy had been […]

Racism Still Exists in The City of London

On 19 December 2019, I resigned with immediate effect from a FTSE 250 financial firm based in London. On the basis of a repudiatory breach of contract. I was subjected to work in a toxic environment filled with racism, discrimination, anti-Semitism, harassment and bullying.

Racism in North Devon – Pam’s Story

I was born in London, grew up in Luton which was and still is a multicultural town. At the age of 15 I was chased by a group of NF glue sniffing supporters.

I Too Am the Face of Addiction

I’ve never met a person struggling with substance abuse that wasn’t fighting it in some way. Addiction is a destructive illness that divorces parts of the brain from itself and suspends the sufferer in a constant state of self-battle.

Leaving Cornwall after 44 years

I had always assumed I would end my days in Penzance. I’d lived there since 1977; brought up our two children there, seen three grandchildren born there; and seen them all leave the county. So, there was just my wife and I living in a largish Victorian house which was turning into a money pit as the demands of maintenance increased and my physical abilities decreased. Following a chance remark by our son in August 2020 that he wished we lived nearer to him (in Somerset) we found ourselves in a maelstrom of emotional and practical “stuff” as we contemplated moving.

Racism in North Devon – Dee’s Story

I was relentlessly bullied through pretty much every school year. It all started with taunts about my hair in Primary school, growing up in a little Devon village I was the only brown kid through most of my time there.

A Late Bloomer

I was a 20 year old virgin when I transferred to Seattle University for my junior year from a small state teachers college in Arkansas. Part of my financial assistance package was the opportunity to be a household assistant for a well-to-do Catholic family in Arizona.