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Tell Your Story

Six steps. In your time.

“I tell my story so there is one less story to tell.”

  1. 1Before you begin
  2. 2Verify email
  3. 3Who you are
  4. 4Your story
  5. 5How you appear
  6. 6Review & submit

Step 1 · Before you begin

A word before you write

Telling your story matters. Telling it can also cost you. Words that have been locked away for years can bring the room, the smell, the voice back into the present. That is not weakness — it is what memory does under this kind of weight.

Please make sure, before you begin, that you have what you need around you. Someone to call. A place to stop. A way back to the ordinary. If you have a therapist, tell them you are doing this. If you don't, be gentle with the pace.

You do not have to finish this today. After verifying your email, use Save my progress to keep a private draft, or Save and leave to save and sign out. Return with the same verified email account within 90 days of your last successful save.

You do not have to do this alone, and you do not have to do it today.

You choose how you appear

Real first name, a chosen name, or Anonymous. Your location stays private; your surname appears publicly only if you explicitly choose full-name attribution.

A person reads it first

Every submission is reviewed by a human before anything appears. Nothing is published without your consent.

There is no rush

You can take breaks between the parts. A pause is not a failure. It is care.

Your story stays yours

You can ask to edit or remove it at any time, even after it's published.

Only your title, five story sections and choices not to address sections are saved, privately to your verified account. Nothing saves automatically. Personal details, public name choices, consent, book details and covers are not saved. Drafts are not sent for editorial review or published. They expire 90 days after the last successful save and are permanently deleted by the daily cleanup (within 24 hours of expiry). Viewing does not extend this time. No reminder emails are sent. This is not end-to-end encrypted; routine database backups may retain deleted data until they expire.

Are you 18 or older?

1Less2Tell publishes stories submitted by adults. We ask for an honest declaration — we do not collect your date of birth, and this answer is not stored.