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Chosen – A Child of Abuse by A. M. Linton

Sixteen-year-old Justine lives with her father, mother, and younger siblings.  Money is tight for the family, and getting food to eat on most days is challenging.  Additionally, her mother expresses her frustration with her living conditions by abusing Justine and her siblings.

However, one day, after losing her baby, Justine walked away from her home to live with her grandfather, who lived close to her family home.  While living there, she learned more about her mother, met a new friend, and found the courage to break up with her boyfriend.  There, Justine also met her Saviour.

Bandages and Bullet Wounds by Angel-Clare Linton

I thought I wasn’t gonna make it.

As I lay in my bed in the middle of the night with my blanket up to my chin, I wanted to hide from the world, away from the sea of never-ending dark blue ocean.  I also wanted an escape, a freedom away from my current life that was a well of thick, black words, and I was at the bottom where I couldn’t see my way out and where people couldn’t hear my screams.

As I lay in my bed with my blanket up to my chin, I thought I wouldn’t make it in life since my life felt like a never-ending downstream river.  I thought I’d die in that river before I’d be able to rise to the peak of a mountain, staring down at what I’ve accomplished.

I thought I wasn’t gonna make it, but now I’m going to try because trying and failing is better than not trying at all.

Bandages and Bullet Wounds is Angel-Clare Linton’s third poetry collection.