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My dear friend SLG turned me on to the following poem.
Upon reading it, I knew I wanted to share it with the Breaking the Mirror community, so I contacted the author, Alice N. Persons. She replied immediately and gave me permission to reprint the piece in its entirety here.
I’ve added two pictures below - one […]
In the mirror,
There’s a flaw.
Then two, then three —
My heart is raw.
I hate my hips.
I hate my thighs.
I hate my ass.
(I like my eyes.)
I hate my tummy,
Hate my knees.
Make it stop now,
Pretty please.
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You can be a songwriter!
It doesn’t take as much time as you think, and if you enter, you’ll be eligible to win prizes! […]
As many of you know, I wrote a short story many years ago that I posted here at Breaking the Mirror. The writing was pitiful (my apologies!), but the concept is one that still haunts me:
Are some mothers and daughters essentially “pro-ana” teams?
I’ve never personally known any mom-daughter relationships that fit this desciption, but I’ve […]
Welcome and Happy May Day!
If you are new to “Breaking the Mirror“, I’d like to say hello and suggest that you check out the following links to some of the top April posts from the site to get acquainted with what’s going on around here.
From pro-ana news to ED-related short stories, we aim to serve […]
(continued from Sunday’s post… to start from the beginning of the short story, click here…)
Rebecca walked carefully behind her mother. She watched, shocked, as her mother ripped off her coat, threw it to the floor, got down on her knees in front of the toilet and proceeded to ram her fingers into her mouth.
The gagging […]
(…continued from yesterday’s post…)“I’m sorry - Feast or Famine is closed. May I leave a message for someone there?”
Rebecca loved her job.
As an overnight answering company operator, she felt strangely in control of others’ lives. When she took a message for Dr. Cecil’s Family Practice or Thompkins Funeral Home, she knew she was providing a […]
Today, I wanted to share with you a short story I wrote about ten years ago.
It has plenty of eating disorder overtones - back then, I was grappling with the way body image affected individuals, families, relationships, jobs and societies.This is by no means a “finished” product; it’s quite rough… almost embarrassingly so. However, I […]
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