I Haven't Seen Another Human For Years

02/23/23 • 12 min

Hey guys, I’m Annika Sabeen. I grew up in the Arctic.

My last memory of human life was from when I was 10 years old. I remembered my mother carrying me out into this icy landscape. The wind was blasting us with thousands of icy crystals, and I held onto my mother tight, but she let go of me and dropped me on the freezing floor.

“Mama!”

My mom turned and ignored me. She disappeared, and that was the only memory I had of her. I didn’t even know what her face looked like. The trauma of being abandoned in the Arctic had wasted away what memory I had left, so now all I knew was that my name was Annika Sabeen.

After she abandoned me, I was devastated. But I decided I wasn’t going to go down without a fight. I was determined to survive. I learnt how to make a fire out of the sticks left in the woods nearby. I learnt how to make an igloo to shield myself from the snowstorms. I lived off of seal meat and sometimes even polar bear meat. Life was tough. And boring. Until one fateful day.

I was about 16 years old. I had just returned from fishing, when I noticed that smoke was coming out of my igloo. I felt my heart skip a beat. I hadn’t lit a fire! So how was there any smoke? Was an intruder in my home?

I sprinted as fast as I could and barged in, my spear in hand.

“GET OUT YOU–”

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Hey guys, I’m Annika Sabeen. I grew up in the Arctic.

“Mama!”

I sprinted as fast as I could and barged in, my spear in hand.

“GET OUT YOU–”

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Previous Episode

I Believed For Years I Was A Monster

Hi, my name is Darla, and I'm from Italy. I often wonder if my life would have turned out differently if I didn't have this scar.

I was blessed to grow up in a loving family. Dad was a teacher and Mom had an online business so she was always there for me when I needed her. My family was perfect. But one night my world was turned upside down.

Even though I was five at the time, I remember it like it was yesterday. Mom and Dad were preparing dinner and I was sitting by the kitchen table. Suddenly, a masked man entered the kitchen and Mom grabbed me in front of her. Dad tried to ward off the intruder with the knife in his hand but the intruder snatched me from Mom and threw me into Dad's path. I felt a sharp pain on my face and Mom screamed.

The relationship with Dad wasn't the same when I was released from the hospital. Dad couldn't bear to stay in the same room that I was in. He no longer looked at me or hugged me.

One day Dad went to work and he never returned. I was heartbroken and for years I blamed myself. If it wasn't for this ugly scar then maybe Dad would still be around.

As I went through school, kids and teachers were mean about my scar. I tried to make friends but one girl named Charlotte told everyone that I had an infectious disease and nobody wanted to play with me.

I resorted to wearing a mask in hopes that things may change but it didn't. The last straw was when a teacher placed my lunch in a dog bowl and ordered me to eat it. Mom removed me from the school but she was also able to get the teacher fired. Mom homeschooled me and I was happier than I'd been in a long time.

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My Family Lied About My Past

Hey there, I’m Alexis and I’m from Cantivina. If you think that’s a made-up country, you’re wrong, because I’m the queen of it.

Growing up, life was pretty strange. One time when I was 2 years old I was at a grocery store with my parents when suddenly 5 men dressed like ninjas burst in and tried to grab me!

“GET AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!”

One of the ninjas grabbed me and started to run away with me in his arms.

“MAMA! PAPA!”

“NO! ALEXIS!”

I bit on the guy’s hand and he dropped me.

“Why you little–”

His next few words were snatched from his mouth as two bodyguards jumped in and knocked him out. More bodyguards arrived and dealt with the other ninjas, and before long I was escorted away from the grocery store with the eyes of everyone on us. Someone in the crowd scoffed angrily, “ I wonder who those people are?” His wife then said, ``they must be movie stars or something”. When we got home, I asked my parents what had happened and they told me not to worry too much about it.

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