Status Updates From We Had No Rules

“To read her essays was to have someone kneeling before me, undoing my zipper.”

think how damaging and overall unsettling for someone in a place of power to use a young person’s intelligence to have at the very least an emotional affair? The twist in this story threw me for a loop, however I think this solidifying moment cements the mc’s character and who they are. Without the use of personal narration at her defense.

We have no rules follows a 16 yr old who recent moved in with their 24 yr old sister and roommates after running away from home. It documents that life altering moment from the child’s eyes. To see how naïveté can be prayed upon and the child like confusion about how ppl can move around them in a way that is dangerous even if it may not seem like it