Content: depression

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Humble Sky tells the story of the development of a new drug for depression. Seen from the inside of a biotechnology start-up company, four characters' perspectives are used: Jacob (a middle manager and smart aleck), Emma (Jacob's spouse), Tony (Jacob's boss), and Patty (Jacob's employee). Tony manages the company like a dysfunctional parent and requires employees to spy on one another. Emma suffers from depression and pressures Jacob onto a Texas-themed cruise ship. Patty saves the scientific integrity of their work from Tony's profiteering and reaps her own financial reward. Jacob travels to the Caribbean, pits Texan and French passengers against one another and in a Book of Job-inspired sequence, he has a conversation with God. Feedback of all kinds welcome.

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In an old age home, a man makes some wry observations about life and the possibilities it holds... or doesn't.

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Up Home Again is the story of a woman who makes her peace with a haunting childhood in a beautiful place when she returns to Maine to resolve her current personal dilemmas. Finding herself back in the place, though not the time, of her lonely youth, she examines the changes in the area and in herself. Written with a mix of nostalgia and humor, this is a story for anyone who ever went away from anywhere and even thought of coming back.

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A poem.

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I've written about my life growing up in poverty in the small town of Brighton, Illinois during the 1970's. My book has been compared to Dave Pelzer's "A Child Called It" because we were also reared in an abusive atmosphere where our mother suffered from depression and obesity, but, instead of being an alcoholic, she was a prophetess. God wanted us to go through garbage dumpsters for food and to eventually move to a remote location in Missouri where we lived in a cave for four years. My childhood started out normal with love and respect from two working parents, but it was short-lived because Mom and Dad separated when I was four. Dad didn't pay child support and Mom no longer worked. We lived in cluttered, filthy, hoarding conditions. By the time I was twenty years old, I was six feet three inches tall and weighed one hundred and thirty pounds; I was homeless, depressed, and suffered everyday from headaches to severe migraines and vomiting. I lived through a unique experience that has given me a personal glimpse into the lifestyle and mindset of our nation's poorest people. Billions of people in the world live below the poverty level and nearly nineteen million people in the U.S. suffer from a depressive illness. It's been a long emotional journey for me to write forty-five chapters that begin with my first visits with a mental health counselor and then chronicles the first twenty years of my life. I was educated in the Illinois public school system through the ninth grade when I was pulled from school so we could live a better life for God without the influence of our sinful society. I love my parents, but they are the strangest people I have ever met. I didn't write my memoir out of hate or revenge. I began writing after a counselor suggested it to relieve stress.

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How an over-extended grandma learns to take care of herself first, others second, by indulging herself in travel, comes back restored (almost) to normal.

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A short peice from a part of my life that no-one knew about, and still don't. I was always the perfectly happy child and friend. I am over it now and part of the reason i would like to become a psychologist. To be able to help people that are going through things that make them feel this way. This is a rough peice i have barly edited. I don't really know why i'm posting it. The book im currently reading is about a severe case of this and i felt the need to write mine down.

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A break-up in under 100 words.

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A poem.

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