Makayla Cullum
Bio
I am a current college student with a major in psychology and a minor in english. I enjoy to write mainly poetry and short stories along with reading books from many authors.
Stories (5/0)
Moonlight
Moonlight The Moon is a difficult subject since it has so many phases, beginning with the new moon and ending with the full moon. I prefer to think of this as a mental cycle in which we must strive to become full of light again when we are in our darkest times. When you transform into a full moon, it is the most wonderful feeling in the world because you are bathed in light, casting away the shades of darkness. The trouble with being entirely full is that when something awful happens, you start to let the darkness back in, you allow yourself to be swallowed whole, and you end yourself right back where you started.
By Makayla Cullum3 years ago in Psyche
The Community
I've lived in this world since I was 11 years old, where we now live as a new community inside this building. Our world was struck by a plague that many did not survive seven years ago, and we were unable to stop it. For as long as we could, we tried to carry on with our normal lives, but it posed too much of a threat to mankind, and people were dropping like flies. My school had only 150 students when the globe seemed to stop spinning, but by the time the world seemed to stop spinning, there were only 45. My mother and I lived with my grandmother, but she died just as the world was attempting to build "safe houses" to safeguard as many people as possible. She gave me her necklace, a tiny heart-shaped pendant, that my grandfather had given her on her wedding day while she was on her deathbed, and she told me that one day it would guide me through life. Of course, I didn't understand, but she was suffering from dementia, so I'm sure she was just confused. Even so, I've been wearing it every day since her death.
By Makayla Cullum3 years ago in Fiction
Bedtime Stories
We are told many stories as girls in society where the princess must be rescued by the prince, but never when the prince needs to be rescued by the princess. Many childhood stories for young girls show women as weak and delicate, yet in the instance of Beauty and the Beast, Belle defied society's expectations. Belle was a simple girl who enjoyed reading and other activities that other women and men deemed weird. She didn't want to be locked in a world where she was just used to do the more "feminine" responsibilities of life as a housewife. This was always my favorite story since Belle was independent and vocal, doing what she wanted for herself rather than what society expected of her.
By Makayla Cullum3 years ago in Families
