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Autobiographies

Tell your life story in 400 words or less

Andrew, Orlando

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 12 April 2008, with no comments so far.

From 400 Words, Issue 1
by Andrew – Age 26 – Orlando, FL
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 […]

Mary, Olympia

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 7 April 2008, with 1 comment so far.

From 400 Words, Issue 1
by Mary—Age 46—Olympia, WA
I was born into a sad person’s middle class white home of angry people and miserable immigrant grandparents who loved me more than my own weird mother did. Always a feminist before I could clearly say the letter ‘f,’ I started seriously writing in second grade when the […]

Annabel, Edinburgh

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 5 April 2008, with no comments so far.

by Annabel—Age 24—Edinburgh, Scotland
Mom was a conceptual artist and Dad a drummer in punk bands. Once he played a gig dressed only in boxers and tinfoil, which fell off as he played. He stopped playing when I was two, and started taking me to social work school with him on the Green Line. Mom stopped […]

Derek, Portland

Posted to Stories on the topic of Autobiographies on 3 April 2008, with no comments so far.

From 400 Words, Issue 1
by Derek—Age 33—Portland, OR

I now reside in Portland, Oregon. I arrived here two years ago in a beat-up truck with everything I owned crammed into the bed and cab. I was fleeing Lee’s Summit, Missouri, where I had worked for a shady sub-contractor for the Justice Department—blowing the whistle led […]