This story is dedicated to anyone struggling with an eating disorder or a poor body image, and the families and friends that are there to support them.
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"Listen to the whispers that curl into your head at night, calling you ugly and fat and stupid and bitch and whore and worst of all, 'a disappointment.' Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and drink and cut because you need the anesthetic and it works. For a while. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's too late because you are mainlining it now, straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop." -Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
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Anorexic Alice, falling down that rabbit hole burns 9.35 calories...
Off with your head? Maybe you'll lose a couple pounds.
That's what it's all about, isn't it Anorexic Alice?
YOU ARE READING
Freak
Short StoryYears after the story became a classic, a girl named Alice finds her own Wonderland. She visits her dreamland when she feels the need to eat, and it convinces her not to. Her weight is dangerously low. She locks herself in her room every night and h...
