Faded Dreams, Teen Pregnancy, & Anxiety Overload
What happens when teenage dreams are replaced with stretch marks, sleepless nights, and anxiety overload? This raw journal entry from The Hollow Quill explores teen pregnancy, rebuilding after trauma, and how women rise from the rubble stronger than ever. If you’ve ever had to reinvent yourself after life flipped the script, this story is for you.
Growing Up Latina in the 90s: Curly Hair, Culture Shock & Finding My Voice
Sexually confused… Still are??
You can’t imagine your life without the over-sprayed musky scent of Drakkar entering the room before your crush. Or the thought of never experiencing the feeling of an unsheathed penis sliding into your pleasure box ever again tragic is unimaginable.
Yet, you have questionable obsession with lesbian porn.
Mixtapes, Delusions, & Death By Cooter Consumption
“A FULL-GROWN ADOLESCENT DEMIGOD WITH A JAWLINE THAT MAKES ME WISH I KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING IN THE SACK BACK THEN.
FROM WHAT MY EXTREMELY VIVID IMAGINATION COULD TELL… A PERFORMANCE SO INTENSE IT WOULD END IN DEATH BY SUFFOCATION VIA COOTER CONSUMPTION.”
Meeting Your Inner Wild Child - Mine? She’s Crazy, Curly, & C✨ty.
“WHY DID SHE OFTEN FEEL ALONE? WHY DID SHE THINK GETTING PREGNANT AT SIXTEEN WAS GOING TO UNLOCK SOME KIND OF DEEP, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE SHE WAS MISSING? WHY DID SHE OFTEN LOOK TO MEN FOR A COMFORT THAT LASTED A MERE FORTY SECONDS– JUST LONG ENOUGH FOR MY EX-HUSBAND TO NUT.”
Manifest. Mourn. Masturbate. Repeat: A Midlife Awakening
“I HAD A HEART-TO-HEART WITH MY PHYSICIAN RECENTLY AND EXPLAINED TO HER THAT THERE IS ONE THING IN LIFE I REFUSE TO GIVE UP. AND THAT MY FRIENDS ARE ORGASMS...
THE FACT THAT MY ANTI-ANXIETY MEDICATION LIKES TO NUMB MY CLITORIS, ISN’T A WIN IN MY BOOK. I’D RATHER LIVE WITH MY ANXIETY AND JERK OFF ALL DAY WITH SOME ACTUAL FEELING IN MY GENITALS. LIFE IS SHORT, AND ORGASMS ARE SACRED.”
Journal Prompt: The Lover Who Broke You Wide Open (And What You Learned About Love & Loss)
“My deepest heartbreak wasn’t even with the men I legally shared health insurance with. And yet, he was the one who taught me what it means to completely lose yourself in someone else – and how fucking hard it is to claw your way back…”
