Archive for August 2006

Shawna, 31, Mountain View

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 28 August 2006, with no comments so far.

I don’t remember the three times my mom tried to kill herself before I was five. I do remember visiting her in the hospital, and I remember the long drive when dad kidnapped me. He dropped me off with an aunt and uncle as soon as he got home.
Then there was the time dad […]

Jason, 33, Providence

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 25 August 2006, with 5 comments so far.

Nineteen seventy one. Tompkins County Hospital, Ithaca, New York. Nineteen seventy one. Stewart Avenue. Nineteen seventy four. Route Ninety, Aurora, New York. Nineteen seventy five. Stewart Avenue, Ithaca, New York. Preschool, East Court Street. Kindergarten, East Side School, Stewart Avenue. Nineteen seventy seven. Wendell Ave, Schenectady, New York. Gillespie Street, The Open School, […]

Andrew, 26, Orlando

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 23 August 2006, with no comments so far.

This guy, see, or should we say a boy then, was born already distracted. With bright eyes and a quiet mouth, he watched and watched. Leaves made good friends, which unnerved his parents such that they made him do things like play baseball. He was forced to stand in the outfield, which unnerved him such […]

Kevin, 27, Ithaca

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 22 August 2006, with no comments so far.

All my aunts and uncles lived in the same tiny mining town in northwestern Ontario, and after the mine closed and my grandpa’s garage went bankrupt they all moved west to British Columbia. I was born soon after this, on a sunny day in August, the firstborn child of a couple named Pat and Mike. […]