DC
I never knew my grandfather, and even though everyone says I look and act just like he did, it still was very strange when my now senile grandmother confused me for him.
2013-04-14 19:53:22 / Rating: 96 / 
His Girl
“You,” he told me, standing in the dark on the dock at his cottage, watching falling stars, “are the best part of my summer.”
2013-04-14 19:53:09 / Rating: 136.25 /
An Introvert at Sea
I hear stories of people lost at sea or on a desert island for weeks or months and often wish I could get to that level of solitude.
2013-04-14 19:52:57 / Rating: 99.25 /
graciegater
When my parents told me they were divorcing, I asked if that meant I could get a kitten.
2013-04-14 19:52:48 / Rating: 82.5 /
Prematurely Apocalyptic
I realized that there were only two ways this conversation was going to go down when my English teacher asked me why two of the three names credited on my essay about friends were "my mother" and "the cat".
2013-04-14 19:52:04 / Rating: 66.75 /
A CEO's Daughter
I realized something was terribly wrong when I almost sold my virginity to avoid accepting any more of my overbearing father's money.
2013-04-09 18:56:22 / Rating: 64 /
Heather Marie
Even his suicide note was cheerful.
2013-04-09 18:55:09 / Rating: 168.5 /
Oops
Don't invite the object of your affection to your experimental music concert, spill beer on her at intermission, and expect her to stay until the end.
2013-04-09 18:54:45 / Rating: 62.25 /
It's not short for Abigail
I laughed when I learned that, in 1999, there were two hurricanes that occurred one after the other, with the same names as my parents.
2013-03-12 17:36:15 / Rating: 160.5 /
Posie
After three years of practicing abstinence with my hot fiance and counting down the days to the wedding, I'm in a sexless marriage.
2013-03-12 17:36:07 / Rating: 166 /
Is it wrong?
I joined the army simply so I could legally murder a human being.
2012-10-28 00:05:47 / Rating: 557.75 /
Mr.Major
As I stood there, wondering why I felt nothing for the body of my once-living grandmother, I wiped away an annoying tear that had blurred my right eye.
2012-10-23 10:25:17 / Rating: 341 /
Life in a mall
As I threw the bag into the trash can, I wondered if the bag would hit the fire alarm and set it off, which it did.
2012-10-16 15:54:19 / Rating: 311 /
Shubh
I couldn't stop smiling when I was told that for the first time, my work would be acknowledged in the school magazine.
2012-10-16 15:53:58 / Rating: 295.75 /
Hypocrite
I can no longer give a speech at my middle brother's wedding, because I am too angry that he calls himself a Christian and yet allows his friends to refer to our youngest brother as a "faggot."
2012-10-16 15:43:59 / Rating: 857 /
UsedCincinnattie
After teaching all day and working a second job to support myself, going to bed is the most incredible experience I can think of.
2012-10-08 00:43:15 / Rating: 407 /
frustratedmom
she hates melted cheese, but wants pizza.
2012-10-08 00:41:59 / Rating: 369.5 /
Mars
Today I washed my mother's hair for the first time.
2012-09-11 20:23:10 / Rating: 523.25 /
Broken No More
I ate in the restaurant where we'd met for the first time and I remembered her only after I'd paid the bill.
2012-09-11 20:23:01 / Rating: 480.5 /
Maddawadz
I find it painfully ironic that my grandfather died on Grandparent's Day.
2012-09-11 20:22:31 / Rating: 283.25 /
wanted
That night, our game of fugitive ended in an actual cop chase.
2012-08-01 17:15:31 / Rating: 362.25 /
Awkward Teen
Mom laughed and said, "I'm not going to let the doctor put you on ADHD meds. just so you can see if it helps you draw better!"
2012-08-01 17:15:22 / Rating: 352 /
Grace
I was the only one who could swim and could've jumped in to save him in time, but I just stood there in shock and will now never forgive myself.
2012-08-01 11:04:16 / Rating: 417.25 /
Charlie G
On a one lane dirt road 30 miles deep into a rain soaked state forest it finally occurs to me, this is no place for my Toyota Corolla.
2012-08-01 11:03:10 / Rating: 473.5 /
Elesary
My mother believed I seduced her husband, even though my stepfather had me pinned to the bed, his hand over my mouth so I wouldn't scream.
2012-07-23 15:05:43 / Rating: 610.5 /
