John Johnny
Once I went to a store and bought something while it was being robbed and didn't realize it until that night.
2006-09-30 11:41:12 / Rating: 131 / 
Story archives - September 2006
Castalia
We went out to drink, he got drunk and got caught by a teacher.
2006-09-30 11:40:36 / Rating: 109.5 /
Rei
I thought we had a connection, instead, I realized I loved my boyfriend after all.
2006-09-30 11:39:57 / Rating: 117.25 /
revscrj
As a child I used to think that 'Anon' was a Greek philosopher, when told otherwise, I lost my first real hero.
2006-09-29 22:01:38 / Rating: 263.75 /
revscrj
While the doctor talked about the pain my father was likely to experience after the back surgery, I noticed he had an erection.
2006-09-29 22:00:58 / Rating: 170.5 /
Ruebs
My first love left town with her mum and dad without telling me and I cried.
2006-09-29 14:35:39 / Rating: 128.5 /
D. Jennifer Dawson
You were "my sweet baby" for nine months, but in those last five minutes my intuition finally sighed "She" and I knew.
2006-09-29 14:34:31 / Rating: 136.25 /
fake a smile.
He called from a restricted number, and although I knew it was him, I humored him when he asked "Is Tommy there", knowing full well he knew who he was calling.
2006-09-29 13:08:04 / Rating: 79.25 /
Chad
My father gave me a glass of milk to help swallow the pages as I was slowly force-fed the forbidden book he discovered hidden under my bed.
2006-09-29 11:39:15 / Rating: 201.5 /
Tessie Mc
Of course, we weren't really planning on having a baby in a Volkswagen Bug.
2006-09-29 11:38:23 / Rating: 139.75 /
Evytyn
When the teacher asked my third grade class what they wanted to be when they grew up, I stood up and replied, "Not my father."
2006-09-29 11:33:40 / Rating: 223.5 /
Crystal
Mom, I never told you what they did to me, because I was ashamed and I was afraid you would think it was my fault.
2006-09-29 11:13:36 / Rating: 160.5 /
Billi
There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about how things could've been between us if we hadn't gotten there too late.
2006-09-29 11:13:09 / Rating: 110.5 /
Samuel
I threw away a opportunity because I was scared, now I'm scared I will never have an opportunity.
2006-09-29 10:34:10 / Rating: 177 /
Riley
Due to this summer's events, I'm now addicted to taking guys' virginity.
2006-09-29 10:33:52 / Rating: 143.25 /
Carl
Sometimes when I get really mad I imagine myself yelling at countries, saying things like "Switzerland, you jerk!"
2006-09-29 09:25:28 / Rating: 164.5 /
Gilgongo!
My father smiled at me accross the Christmas dinner table and I heard quite clearly the sound of sleighbells.
2006-09-28 15:56:22 / Rating: 123.5 /
Gilgongo!
I looked up from the floor, towards the bartender, and then, for no apparent reason - I drank fourteen vodka martinis.
2006-09-28 15:56:02 / Rating: 104 /
lonely lisa
It was then, as I sat at the dining room table while one roommate resided in her bedroom with her boyfriend, another roommate was talking on the phone to her boyfriend, and my third roommate's boyfriend was making her dinner, that I knew that I was truely alone.
2006-09-28 11:39:08 / Rating: 120.5 /
Jill
My parents grounded me while I was in college, three hours from home.
2006-09-28 09:59:00 / Rating: 217.25 /
incredulous
I stood inbetween them feeling uncomfortable and thought, "Because of these two boys, I have to always watch what I say fearing I might accidently lead either of them on."
2006-09-28 09:58:20 / Rating: 125.5 /
Jill
We take showers together and never get clean.
2006-09-28 09:57:38 / Rating: 182 /
Dope
I called him on his mobile phone to tell him I'd found his mobile phone
2006-09-28 09:57:29 / Rating: 153.5 /
Emerie
When I told my husband of 17 years that I didn't think he knew me and I wanted a divorce, he asked me "Are you a lesbian?"
2006-09-27 23:19:16 / Rating: 199.5 /
UnoWho
I have begun walking down the street along side good looking strangers in the hope that other strangers will think I have good looking friends.
2006-09-27 23:18:16 / Rating: 208.75 /
Joke of a Romantic
As he was telling me over the phone that he didn't know me I came to the sinking realization that I couldn't live without him anymore.
2006-09-27 13:43:46 / Rating: 223 /
Hazard
His arrogance was as potent as my pride, but I would never have told him so, had he not kissed me first.
2006-09-27 10:23:03 / Rating: 185.5 /
Paul
I got up the nerve to tell her I thought she was beautiful, and her reply was, "That's so sweet... but I'm married."
2006-09-27 10:22:39 / Rating: 157.75 /
tey
I opened a door at the exact moment an earthquake began, so I shut the door.
2006-09-27 10:05:02 / Rating: 162.25 /
Splinket
My heart in my throat, I watched as that second blue line started to materialise before my eyes and I realised, this is it - the moment that would change everything I ever imagined the rest of my life to be.
2006-09-27 10:02:32 / Rating: 161 /
Carmen
I was only fourteen.
2006-09-27 09:50:22 / Rating: 779.25 /
Hypnos
It was as I stared down on the urban landscape unfolding before me that I realized, if the eye mirrors the soul, then cities are the eyes of humanity.
2006-09-26 22:42:55 / Rating: 118.5 /
Cody
Suddenly I realized the only person at my birthday party who didn't think I was gay was the girl I kissed three hours before the cake arrived.
2006-09-26 22:40:46 / Rating: 219 /
hollymolly
It wasn't until my 3rd marriage proposal in 2 months at the ripe old age of 12 that i decided living in an orphanage in Venezuela wasn't going to be so bad after all.
2006-09-26 22:39:11 / Rating: 201.5 /
retardedme
I chose him over seven other boys, and then realised he's the only one who would ever cheat.
2006-09-26 22:38:21 / Rating: 120 /
Kimiko
My mother developed a criminal addiction to gambling because my father cheated on her twice.
2006-09-26 16:17:20 / Rating: 147.25 /
SD
He asked me if I would marry him, and it was then, the second I said yes, I knew that he was not the love of my life.
2006-09-26 10:51:14 / Rating: 208.75 /
AndrewC
I could actually feel the gland excreting as I tried to decide "Fight or Flight."
2006-09-26 07:08:14 / Rating: 116.5 /
Lost In Translation
I thought I could speak French until I actually met someone who spoke it.
2006-09-26 07:07:26 / Rating: 152.5 /
J
I may have just made the biggest mistake of my young life, but she doesn't know that yet.
2006-09-25 22:30:53 / Rating: 156.25 /
Jeff
When I told her I forgave her I had no idea how hard it would be not to hate her for sleeping with my cousin who had been molested by his mother.
2006-09-25 20:55:27 / Rating: 148.75 /
Alexandra
I finished the exam with half an hour to spare, so I thought I'd cheer up the examination marker by drawing bad things happening to cats in the margins of my essay.
2006-09-25 19:34:00 / Rating: 218.75 /
Andrew
When we asked our mom to tell us a story, she replied "A pig fell in the mud."
2006-09-23 21:03:17 / Rating: 179.5 /
Skye
"For you? Really?" the man in the pharmacy said, surprised, when I asked him to pass me a pregnancy test.
2006-09-23 12:01:40 / Rating: 613.5 /
Dancin' Dave
We spent too much money on the external hard drive, but at least we don't have to carry all our CD's when we move to Mokpo, South Korea.
2006-09-23 12:01:32 / Rating: 104.25 /
Eureka
And as the fight ended, we realized that we have never fought about anything with even the slightest bit of significance.
2006-09-22 21:15:57 / Rating: 128.25 /
Georgette
So I hopped one legged around the room screaming until the slug fell of the bottom of my foot.
2006-09-22 18:47:08 / Rating: 129.75 /
Chels
It's been 6 months since I fell in love with my boyfriend and only now did I realize just how much he really hates me.
2006-09-22 18:46:24 / Rating: 186.75 /
DarklyScanned
This month began blackly with a death and ended radiantly with a marriage.
2006-09-21 21:36:20 / Rating: 177 /
Ryan
When she cried the first time, I was surprised that I was ready to handle it like a father should.
2006-09-19 17:21:40 / Rating: 312 /
you know who i am
My mother called me to do a chore and i responded, "What you need, Woman," to which my father chided, "Your mother is NOT a woman!"
2006-09-16 09:27:04 / Rating: 794 /
Jared Seth
A stunning woman in a sexy little sundress got on the subway, and for just a moment I forgot to breathe.
2006-09-15 16:18:51 / Rating: 646.75 /
Mae
She was my favorite cousin and my best friend, but that didn't stop her from screwing my fiance then marrying him.
2006-09-15 11:23:09 / Rating: 412 /
Rusty
I took a neuropsychiatric test and realized that I don't have a mental illness after all: I have five.
2006-09-15 10:44:28 / Rating: 585.5 /
Durability Loss
Instead of going to a bar, spending a lot of money and hanging out with stupid vapid people that I can't stand, I stay home and play World of Warcraft.
2006-09-15 10:44:09 / Rating: 330 /
Shine
I waited two years for a chance with her, but in the end it was she who took the chance with me.
2006-09-15 10:42:15 / Rating: 450.75 /
gatefan
I began to play and it was great until I realized it was actually work so I quit and got a job with insurance and a bigger cubicle.
2006-09-15 10:37:26 / Rating: 197 /
Perle
The lies exploded as you stammered to defend yourself but in the process I found myself to be bored with the whole being that was you.
2006-09-15 08:02:24 / Rating: 192 /
Oliver
Having to leave behind long-sought posessions many times I realized finally that only the memories of moments and the people remembering me are things to last.
2006-09-14 22:23:41 / Rating: 149.5 /
dragonsquirrel92
"I was waiting for you," she said, and for an instant I wasn't alone.
2006-09-14 22:23:22 / Rating: 576 /
Anon
My neighbour (who meant a lot to me) died in hospital on a Monday and I was the last one to see her alive.
2006-09-14 20:20:23 / Rating: 185.75 /
Boberg
I looked into the sun trying to sneeze which she must have taken for a smile and smiled back.
2006-09-14 20:19:58 / Rating: 191.75 /
Q
In just those four words written on a brightly glowing computer screen, I realised that I'd lost the ability to trust anybody ever again.
2006-09-14 20:19:03 / Rating: 266.5 /
Chester
Arriving home after sitting in traffic for two hours, I said to myself, "Oh, wait, I don't live here anymore."
2006-09-14 20:18:39 / Rating: 1128.75 /
jeddy_three
They played hair dye roulette, switching the colors between random boxes.
2006-09-14 15:07:07 / Rating: 202.75 /
jeddy_three
It's been 12 years, 4 months, and 23 days since our first kiss on his best friend's front porch, and I just discovered that he married someone else.
2006-09-14 15:06:40 / Rating: 254.5 /
evalgo iavot
I watched the sun rise thinking of her; sighed and walked to work, breathing easier for a change.
2006-09-14 14:38:12 / Rating: 236.5 /
Corey
If you put Dry Ice in a full 2L bottle of coke and put the cap back on you can create complete chaos on the subway.
2006-09-14 12:52:53 / Rating: 297 /
Mister-E
When I told him how I beat the hell out of a guy in a fight earlier that week, what I was really saying was "Stay away from my girlfriend, neither of us like you, you creepy fuck."
2006-09-14 11:19:01 / Rating: 304.5 /
dooya
Recently I realized that I waste my life on the internet ... and published this insight in a blog.
2006-09-14 10:14:49 / Rating: 647.75 /
Nita
Just as we entered the jam-packed animal rights seminar, the elastic on my half slip failed, and it fell to the floor.
2006-09-14 10:06:39 / Rating: 199.75 /
Adam
The pedestrian looked concerned, as he bounced off the bonnet of my car.
2006-09-14 08:55:29 / Rating: 615.75 /
Rob Sanderson
I sat there that night and realized that all my life I’ve been trying to eliminate the things that cause me to get depressed, instead of the depression itself.
2006-09-14 07:14:25 / Rating: 328 /
Johnny Luddite
As the porter wheeling my gurney down to the operating room took a corner too tightly, crashing my arm into the wall, I reflected that my last utterance on this earth might well be a profanity.
2006-09-14 07:13:46 / Rating: 582.25 /
keethie
The town slept peacefully through the darkness, its long nightmare finished now, with only the bright dawn ahead.
2006-09-13 13:31:38 / Rating: 157.75 /
Finster
Joanne had already inserted her card in the ATM when she realised that the keypad had been liberally thrown up on.
2006-09-13 13:31:26 / Rating: 321.25 /
L.
Seven years later is love still unrequited when he whispers, "I've been in love with you for years" on the cold steps of a bowling alley?
2006-09-12 22:13:08 / Rating: 168.75 /
denton
I want to hold her to stop her tears, but I know my girlfriend would not appreciate that.
2006-09-12 22:12:46 / Rating: 451.75 /
kd
I finally must confess that, despite all efforts, I can no longer bring myself to vote for even the most beautiful and touching "One Sentence" submission, because that would mean admitting that my own story was nothing more than average.
2006-09-12 22:12:11 / Rating: 252.75 /
Mike Booth
Now, nearly half a century on and exiled in a hot country, I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been if I hadn't admitted Karen to Sharon, nor Sharon to Karen.
2006-09-12 22:11:23 / Rating: 134.5 /
meganlala
"My brother died" was all she said, and in that one instant, all I wanted was for us to be 19 again, and unaware of the gut wrenching pain I would feel for her 10 years later.
2006-09-12 22:08:10 / Rating: 237.25 /
what i am
All my life, I've been hiding that I'm bisexual so much so that I've emasculated myself; i've become utterly incongruent.
2006-09-12 22:07:25 / Rating: 157.75 /
korngie
Since I've moved away from home I've had to lie every time I say "I miss you."
2006-09-12 19:53:23 / Rating: 370.75 /
idelwood
After I cried my way out of the city I was homeless and studying at a university in a strange country and I missed all my clothes in the left behind city.
2006-09-12 12:20:10 / Rating: 126 /
Calliope
I never thought I would be responsible for sending someone to jail, but I didn't hesitate to press charges when I found out a very ex-boyfriend stole my identity.
2006-09-12 11:43:21 / Rating: 221.5 /
meganlala
It was only when he gave me a foot massage, me with the phobia regarding contact with my toes, that I realized just how much I love this man.
2006-09-12 07:02:28 / Rating: 204 /
Mae
One-time I got in trouble in Religious studies for saying the word "vagina," but talked my way out of it by convincing them I had said "Virgin Mary".
2006-09-11 23:22:49 / Rating: 423 /
Shane
Me, my twin brother, my girlfriend and her twin sister made a road trip to the Twinsburg Twins Days festival and all tried to spot "TWILFS".
2006-09-11 23:21:22 / Rating: 153.25 /
Rae
My first love ended with calling each other sluts and never speaking to each other again.
2006-09-11 23:20:51 / Rating: 161.5 /
Abe
If I had known how to say "I am socially comfortable" in Korean, that sultry night in May would have been less awkward, though generally I would like to limit the number of languages in which I've lied.
2006-09-11 23:20:32 / Rating: 250.5 /
Meatbomb
It wasn't the sex that proved she loved me, it was the first time she slept with me without having sex that I knew she would be the one.
2006-09-11 23:20:03 / Rating: 580.25 /
allan
My granddaughter took my finger in her day-old fist and I fell in love.
2006-09-11 23:19:28 / Rating: 207 /
Erik
When I read that the moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of an inch a year, I knew one day too it would abandon me.
2006-09-11 23:18:21 / Rating: 477 /
Mike Booth
As an innocent eight year old, I had no idea that my threat to kill my younger brother and sister would bring about such rapid, and gratifying results, returning me to my rightful place at the center of the universe.
2006-09-11 23:09:58 / Rating: 212.5 /
Ruebs
The day I met my girlfriend I told my cousin "I think I could marry this chic".
2006-09-11 23:07:53 / Rating: 84.75 /
Lewis from North Carolina, USA
President Bush killed my father, a soldier whose burned remains are now a part of the Iraqi desert landscape, and I, longing to fit in by supporting something I did not understand, was stupid enough to vote for him the previous year.
2006-09-11 23:06:50 / Rating: 721.5 /
N
I used to pray every month for my period to come, but recently I've started hoping it wouldn't.
2006-09-11 22:37:45 / Rating: 365 /
cparisb4udie
As Katrina's waters rose, this became clear: how you loved and lived your life BEFORE the storm came - that determined, to a large extent, how well you survived AFTER it passed.
2006-09-11 22:18:29 / Rating: 204 /
Keminet
I couldn't tell you she died this weekend because I didn't want you to look at me with those puppy-dog-eyes and ask me how my grief could possibly compare to yours over your mother.
2006-09-11 22:17:56 / Rating: 110.5 /
cparisb4udie
I wondered why I was having trouble grieving the death of my mother when the counselor figured out I had not grieved the death of HER mother only 12 years earlier.
2006-09-11 21:50:59 / Rating: 211.5 /
Firefly
After years of pursuing men and boys, I've discovered it's easiest to fall for one you know will never like you back, simply because he doesn't know.
2006-09-11 21:50:33 / Rating: 318.25 /
Nexios
When I realized that nothing was absolute, I stopped looking for true love and figured that beyond a reasonable doubt would be just fine.
2006-09-11 21:50:08 / Rating: 160.75 /
bob
I can not wait to leave this all behind but walking out the door is getting harder and harder by the day.
2006-09-11 21:49:42 / Rating: 87.25 /
Bubu
Watching him, I realize he is the only reason I live, and that I am watching him die.
2006-09-11 20:15:26 / Rating: 186.25 /
SirOJ
After experiencing the situation myself I suddenly realised you can spot if any person's parents are dead by the natural sadness on their face.
2006-09-11 16:11:52 / Rating: 195.5 /
Mae
I stopped hurting myself a long time ago because I got bored, not because I got better.
2006-09-11 14:57:33 / Rating: 132.5 /
Monty
She called me on the phone, and part of me left with her; I am weak and the light is gone from my day.
2006-09-11 14:08:33 / Rating: 187.5 /
Dino
After the security guard yelled at me to get back to my own stretcher and stop making out with my boyfriend, he asks my boyfriend "Do you know him?"
2006-09-11 14:03:17 / Rating: 141.75 /
Dino
Then, after hearing about faecal aerosols, I never flushed with the lid up.
2006-09-11 14:03:15 / Rating: 127.25 /
Steve Brettult
I'm happily married with a family, but I still pine for the girl who died in high school.
2006-09-11 12:27:17 / Rating: 236.25 /
Eimear
I often think it odd how one of my clearer childhood memories is of slapping my two year old brother's face as hard as my seven year old self could manage.
2006-09-11 12:20:17 / Rating: 141.75 /
Kyria Greene
For nineteen years, five hours and six minutes, I've loved a man I could never be with.
2006-09-11 11:43:13 / Rating: 192 /
Alex
I now work for the TV production company who produced the programme on which I met my wife.
2006-09-11 10:40:22 / Rating: 131 /
geckotales
When I went to my father's crippled car, a few hours after the wreck, I found both of his shoes on the floorboard surrounded by blood and covered in glass.
2006-09-11 10:25:35 / Rating: 175.5 /
mark
His big round eyes welled up with tears and the look of di