Rhys Ellis

Here to build writing into my life again and find a likeminded community.

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Rhys Ellis

Here to build writing into my life again and find a likeminded community.

Writings

Followers

Following

Take Me With You

Rhys Ellis

1 min read

When I was little, I used to lay outside and reach my hands up to the sky above, convinced I could touch the great moving clouds if I just extended my arms a little further and float away with them.

“Mary, hurry up!” My ma called back to me from inside the house.

I stood up, still looking at the clouds above wondering where they were traveling to and wanting desperately to join.

“Dinner is almo...

YA fiction

Childhood

Rhys Ellis

1 min read

Growing up with two emotionally immature parents in a codependent marriage made me wonder what adult life had in store for me. Did everyone have relationships that centered around overeating and smoking cigarettes after a fight? Was it normal to shout while also walking out of the room?

For years I had watched them both blame one another for their own problems and slap an easy fix on them wheneve...

YA fiction

Emily

Rhys Ellis

2 min read

_Ugh it’s here, _I thought as they walked through the door. I had gone through this once before with my last humans. Spent months being called a good boy and watching a bump grow, only to be left at home with no warning. That’s how I knew what the warning signs were this time around.

I’m still fairly young myself, and my previous owners couldn’t take care of me anymore once _theirs_ came. That’s ...

YA fiction

Humour

Self

Rhys Ellis

1 min read

The mask is slipping

Catch it before it falls

Revealing your true self

The one who doesn’t belong

What if they knew?

The dark room you sat in

The nights you wished

Prayed

To be someone else

What if they knew?

The racing questions

How can you walk among people

Who have so much more value

Than you ever did

What if they knew?

That even now, years later

You’re rethinking your whole identity

The sy...

Poetry