Story Time
Welcome to story time. Here, over time, you will find a variety of short stories that are either fiction or non-fiction in nature. Many of these stories have an adoption theme which explores being adopted from an adoptee's viewpoint. Those not dealing with adoption deal with family dynamics and friendships that occur in our daily life experiences.
The Birthday Present is a short story that was recently published in the online magazine Visible Magazine. It is the story of an eight year old girl who is hoping to get a new bicycle for her birthday but ends up getting more than she ever bargained for. Click on the link above to read the story at visiblemagazine.com.
The Chosen Child is a short story essay which explores the origins of the adoption industries use of the "Chosen Child" story over time. Tracing it's origins back to 1931, the chosen child story is based on a real historical story that advertised babies for adoption in a local Syracuse, NY newspaper in 1931. Still used today, the chosen child story is used as an introductory story to explain to children what it means to be adopted.
A Birthday Wish
Birthdays have always been my least favorite celebration – ever. To me, birthdays are just a painful reminder of the day I was born, taken from my mother and then handed over to strangers. Strangers, who would legally adopt me as their own, but raise me with the constant reminder that I was not really one of them, nor could I ever expect to be.
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