Memoirs: Pain 34 Articles

by L. E. Chandler

Pain, yes I know the word. I am still a teenager and I have already felt the grasping claws of real pain. I wasn't what you would call a typical case. I had a good family that took care of me. I loved to read and I spent l...read more

by Austin Estabrooks

This is for all the people who will never know the life of a greenhorn, and of course for all of my friends and co-workers aboard the Fierce Allegiance. A group of men I would gladly work with again anytime: It is Jan...read more

by Jess Cox

Girl Once there was a little girl. Ordinary like everyone else. Happy like everyone else. But as she began to grow up she realized her life wasn't so ordinary, that she wasn't so very happy. A very terrible thing wa...read more

by Sarah Simon

It was like an explosion through my entire body. Every inch of me ached and my skin crawled. The hair on the back of my neck stood up as my mom uttered those few words, "Sarah, Daddy didn't make it." At that point, I wa...read more

by Diana Wagle

The Destiny Time The weather was great yesterday. I slowly walked to a parking lot enjoying the warm weather. Light wind touched my face lovingly, carrying spring smells from many directions. I stopped, breathing the...read more

by Minh Phuong Nguyen

There is a suffocating feeling inside of me when I hear a baby's cry. I don't think of tantrums; I think of death. My chest hurts, constricted, and I can't breathe evenly. Can it be because of my baby sister's death? Is th...read more

by Stephen Knight

How does one write about pain, physical or emotional. With me its emotional, the feeling of rejection the depression and torment you feel after being rejected is not a good one, it`s not the rejection of a loved one but th...read more

by Curtis Carper

I awakened from the surgery, still groggy, I didn't dare move, as long as I lay perfectly still the pain was tolerable. The nurse came in and explained the button clipped close by, if the pain was to bad press the button ...read more

by Elizabeth Tarnosky

March 19, 2007 8:00 PM Sitting at my desk in absolute darkness, I let the sorrowful chords of the song enter my soul. Tonight they've gone too far. And I want out. I let the tears stream down my face, feel the sobs...read more

by David Bone

A Future Carved By A Newfound Anger. I had just read a few pieces on pain and living with it and then it hit me, like electricity sending a message through every receptor in my body, which is what physic...read more

by Joe Dale

Age one. I was born to an alcoholic. The two women responsible for me, my biological mother and the one who adopted me were incapable of love. They may have tried very hard, but my siblings agree, there was no love in ...read more

by Dr.Cast

I remember my mother left me when I was two years old and she told me don't worry I'll be back for you. Not having a stable home, sleeping around at different family member houses I experienced what sexual abuse by many fa...read more

by Maxwell Nye

It is impossible for me to ascertain absolutely what foul demon it was that led me to alcoholism. I have, on many occasions, pondered over past circumstances in an attempt to analyse the situation. It may have been brought...read more

by Nicole Natilia

Memoirs: Pain- Angel Part I Some say the pain of giving birth is the worst pain you will feel. Others say the dentist. While still others say no pain no gain. I say there is no pain like a person you love can cause. ...read more

by Grace Given

Small towns tucked in the foot hills of the Appellation Mountains, stay at home moms, and oak lined streets, a small town seemed an idyllic place to grow up in 1956. I remember walking to school that very first day, fi...read more

by Brooke Gilbert

All my childhood I grew up watching my father beat my mother. I always swore that I would never end up in a relationship like that just like every other child that grows up in a house like that. And I have managed to rem...read more

by Melissa Marie Morgan

THIS IS THE FIRST HALF OF A SHORT 63 PAGE BOOK. Perhaps not half, but a sample, if you will. I hope it helps someone. Written in Memory of Michelle Anne Camacho And Michael Kazak I will love you and miss you forev...read more

by Ashley Bethea

I hurt. We all do I guess. No matter the circumstances in my life- happy, sad, difficult or peaceful-I live with this tangled up ball of black pain inside of me. I want it out, but I've realized its inoperable. There is no...read more

by David Hackman

Loss of life, maybe not in the sense you are thinking. I am not dead, at least not in the physical way. My death occurred when my wife of ten years, mother of my two young children, decided that my best friend would ma...read more

by Heather Littles

Pain is the feeling I get when I think of my husband being away. I have defined myself through him, and when he is away I can't see who I am. I know my strengths when I look into his eyes, and I know that I have a great ca...read more