Silent No More

In the article “Silent No More”, Anonymous talks about a sensitive subject, homesexuality, and it is the main point of his story. He says that “There had always been rumors about my sexual orientation, but the painfully straightforward questions made me cringe. I tried to shrug off the girls' malice as ignorance, but I became preoccupied with thought.” and this gives me a little insight on how the narrator feels. He goes on to explain how his fellow peers at school constantly harass him and talks about how he is a shy person and does not really stand up and defend himself. After people at school harassed him, he eventually came out to his closest friends, his sister, and then his parents. He promised himself that he would no longer be silenced again. He says “My face no longer reddened at the mention of homosexuality, and instead of slouching away from intrusive questions, I proudly proclaimed, ‘Yes, I am gay.’”

The Day Mom Nearly Died

In this tear jerking article, “The Day Mom Nearly Died”, Anonymous tells the experience of a girl and her brothers mom and how she was found having a seizure. “She was snoring, but it wasn't normal snoring. It was a kind of snoring that made me feel uneasy. I'm not a doctor, so I didn't know what to think. I stood over her for a few minutes just listening. I wasn't too scared at this point because she always snored.

Then, all of a sudden, it wasn't just snoring. With every exhale, my mom's body was jolting around. She was having a seizure.”, it says. She was paralyzed in fear and sat there and watched her mom, telling herself that she was just sleeping. After she snapped out of being scared still, she called the police. They asked her if she knew CPR, but she never thought she would use it so she didn’t pay attention. Her mom was abusing drugs and she almost died from overdose. She is okay, but the writer ends her terrifying tale with this: “The truth is, you have to learn this lesson on your own. Nobody can make you understand what they've been through. They can't beam their horrible memories into you. Seeing my mom almost die on my living room floor is the reason I will never touch drugs.”