Skye Bothma
Founding member
Bio
Skye is a freelance editor and writer living in rural New Zealand, where she writes about life, love and what it is to be human. She is currently working on her first novel. Visit her website at www.skyebothma.nz
Stories (30/0)
It Really Was You
It was easy to fall for you, and I was one of many swept away by your charm, your good looks, the high-powered-business-exec-with-expensive-sports-car lifestyle. But, for me it was so much more. It was that someone like you could fall for someone like me. It made me think that you saw something in me that no one else did, just as I felt that I saw in you what all the others didn’t. I didn’t love you for your money, I loved you in spite of it.
By Skye Bothma4 years ago in Humans
At Least It's Not Cancer
“At least it’s not cancer,” they say, as if that’s meant to make me feel better. As if cancer is the worst thing that could happen to you, as if there are no other conditions as bad as cancer. From my perspective right now, cancer seems preferable.
By Skye Bothma4 years ago in Longevity
On Becoming a Writer
Why do I want to write? To be honest, at this point in my life I don’t actually want to write. It’s too much like hard work. In my teens, writing was easy. It was my release, my way of working through my emotions and angst of growing up. I could express myself in my writing in a way that I wasn’t able to with spoken words.
By Skye Bothma4 years ago in Journal
The Well
The day you left me, a giant hole formed in my heart,a bottomless pit of despair.Yet the people around me saw nothing.And how could I tell them?They could not understand.They expected me to be like them.And so, I hid the well.Covered the opening with boards and dirt,surrounded it with a barbed wire fence,and abandoned it.
By Skye Bothma4 years ago in Poets
How to Beat Low Self-esteem
“I’m a loser.” “I’m not good at anything.” “How could anyone love me?” I am no stranger to inner thoughts like these. As an introverted, sensitive person with health issues that limit me physically, I have always found it difficult to fit in with the crowd and been the target of countless bullies, and so ever since my childhood I have struggled to find my self-worth.
By Skye Bothma5 years ago in Motivation
