Story archives - October 2006

KC

I can't wait until "Cars" comes out on DVD because I am so sick of watching "Over the Hedge" non-stop.

tags: children movies parenting [add]

2006-10-31 14:08:07 / Rating: 145 /

KC

I would have caught that deep spiral if it wasn't for that pesky brick wall.

tags: football ouch humor [add]

2006-10-31 14:07:59 / Rating: 142.5 /

traci

Bugs have been biting my face, and I got some weird gum disease here, but I'm still sad to be pulling out my US passport and going home, because there's really so much more love here than there is there.

tags: travel colombia [add]

2006-10-31 09:28:03 / Rating: 101 /

Someone else

He was too stupid to think of a proper insult, but then again, he did spray cologne in his own face.

tags: dating idiot [add]

2006-10-30 15:02:46 / Rating: 138.75 /

you know who i am

I knew that night at the Holiday Inn was a mistake, and that was confirmed by my never seeing her again.

tags: sex relationships [add]

2006-10-30 15:02:00 / Rating: 136.25 /

Sam

Well, I thought as I hit the floor in a daze, this is the last time I'll ever eat at *this* sushi bar.

tags: humor food sick food poisoning [add]

2006-10-30 15:01:48 / Rating: 192.25 /

Lia

He thought he was invincible.

tags: car wreck brother survival [add]

2006-10-30 00:21:08 / Rating: 596.75 /

Wogglebug

My parents thought I was disturbed when I went as a serial killer one year, but it was time the Trix Rabbit learned that no means no.

tags: halloween humor childhood tragedy [add]

2006-10-30 00:20:23 / Rating: 237.5 /

Levontaun

We were having loads of fun with our Halloween pranks until the man with the shotgun told us he was not amused.

tags: halloween [add]

2006-10-27 11:49:45 / Rating: 166 /

Row

I tormented her while she lived but she died and I'm the one left in turmoil.

tags: irony death school bullying [add]

2006-10-25 11:04:10 / Rating: 216.75 /

Eureka

There's this really odd old nasty cheese-like smell that reminds me of him because it's what the park bench smelled like on our first date.

tags: first date smell park bench cheese [add]

2006-10-25 11:03:39 / Rating: 153.75 /

PezPyre

Using my $40 lightsaber, I fought with the mini-Darth Maul using my Sith-like mind tricks, and I won his bag of candy.

tags: halloween humor victory darth maul lightsaber candy [add]

2006-10-25 11:03:15 / Rating: 180.75 /

SheRodent

I said I was Vegan, then I went and bought a hamburger and quickly threw it up.

tags: eating disorder lies vegetarian vegan bulimia depression [add]

2006-10-25 11:03:09 / Rating: 169 /

Ryan

Trick-or-treat bags in hand, we jumped into the woods to dodge the car that tried to hit us.

tags: halloween vehicular assault [add]

2006-10-24 13:28:10 / Rating: 100.25 /

The Black Cat

I tried to humor my family because I was so small and crawled into the highchair at the restaurant - and it was funny until they had to unscrew it to get me out of there.

tags: humor childhood [add]

2006-10-24 10:25:28 / Rating: 138 /

The Black Cat

When I told her that her friend thinks I am cheating on her, she laughed at me saying "She really knows nothing about the two of us."

tags: love trust slander [add]

2006-10-24 10:24:59 / Rating: 118.75 /

Kitt

One of the worst feelings in the world is when you realize you weren't really paranoid after all.

tags: heartbreak shock paranoia love sad [add]

2006-10-24 10:24:29 / Rating: 269.5 /

Jack.Coiner

Except for the drool, poop, and hair loss, my dog is the greatest friend I've had.

tags: friendship love honesty pet [add]

2006-10-24 10:24:08 / Rating: 185 /

Levontaun

Nothing spells dismay as much as realizing at 80 miles an hour that your tire has come off.

tags: oops car tire [add]

2006-10-24 09:23:59 / Rating: 147.75 /

Levontaun

I really did like the fact that she knew far more about sex than I did, until I suddenly realized how she came to be that way.

tags: sex life lessons [add]

2006-10-24 09:23:39 / Rating: 179.5 /

Robski

I once asked a girl where her DNA came from -- meaning Irish, Italian, etc. -- and she said from her parents.

tags: humor [add]

2006-10-24 09:20:35 / Rating: 116.25 /

.mosugs

Everything was making a lot of sense until, three days before my bat mitzvah, my mother told me she was getting baptised.

tags: childhood jesus jewish [add]

2006-10-23 15:54:24 / Rating: 164 /

DeepEndZen

It's not the hangovers I fear the most, but the fact that I've lost a few hours of my life that I can never get back.

tags: drinking fear loss [add]

2006-10-23 09:35:17 / Rating: 181 /

Doom

My dad once told me, "Don't keep the Preparation H too close to the toothpaste," then, after a moment, I realized that he was serious.

tags: humor bathroom dad [add]

2006-10-22 20:30:18 / Rating: 177 /

keethie

With a sigh masking her impatience, his wife replied, "If you are SO worried about it, just go take a shower instead of asking me!"

tags: shower [add]

2006-10-22 15:33:10 / Rating: 81.25 /

Eva

My boyfriend thinks it's cool that I check women out with him, but what he doesn't know is that I am more gay than he can imagine.

tags: gay women boyfriend [add]

2006-10-22 15:31:30 / Rating: 202 /

Eureka

My brother bet me $5 that you and I would grow old together, and two days later when you broke up with me I bought five boxes of the most bittersweet twinkies I have ever eaten in my life.

tags: bet brother twinkie love loss breakup depression [add]

2006-10-22 01:34:27 / Rating: 283.75 /

Eureka

The first man to ever lend me clothing was outrageously gay, and he only gave me the socks so I wouldn't drag my wet ones on the floors.

tags: men chivalry gay socks clothes wet floor [add]

2006-10-22 01:33:23 / Rating: 144.25 /

Lula Belle

At 24, I look around my old bedroom in my parent's house and wonder how I ended up here again.

tags: home independance broke family [add]

2006-10-22 01:32:29 / Rating: 167.25 /

steve

I had five years to tell her I loved her, but I could only do it once I lived 300 miles away.

tags: love [add]

2006-10-19 00:33:57 / Rating: 129 /

Eureka

I didn't realize my house was on fire until a complete stranger opened the front door and I thought to myself over the high-bass classic rock, "Is someone downstairs cooking waffles?"

tags: fire music smells waffles strangers house [add]

2006-10-19 00:32:13 / Rating: 180.25 /

DarklyScanned

He woke alone, left with nothing but his thoughts and a cold empty fridge which shuddered in the night and failed to keep the cockroaches out.

tags: fridge awakened cockroach [add]

2006-10-19 00:29:48 / Rating: 80.75 /

rotten

I am broke and so is everything that I own.

tags: money broke broken [add]

2006-10-19 00:28:18 / Rating: 155.75 /

JoeOrdinary

After years of therapy through many different theories and techniques, my final diagnosis is that I'm not, as suspected, crazy, but merely weird.

tags: therapy [add]

2006-10-19 00:26:58 / Rating: 96 /

you know who i am

She got jealous when my sentence got accepted and none of hers did.

tags: jealousy meta [add]

2006-10-19 00:25:30 / Rating: 133.25 /

Reba

Listening to the posturing of brilliant people, I wished I could tell them I would rather be watching TV.

tags: revelation work academics [add]

2006-10-19 00:25:02 / Rating: 117.5 /

Erik

Two stitches and twenty years later, I still don't know why she threw the rock at me, but I'm pretty sure that she was lying when she said, "I was playing hopscotch and missed."

tags: humor childhood rock injury hopscotch ouch [add]

2006-10-18 14:28:22 / Rating: 246.25 /

Goldie

The only thing I think about when I sleep with my boyfriend is how much I wish he were my cousin.

tags: incest pathetic sex love-almost lust [add]

2006-10-18 14:28:03 / Rating: 167.25 /

L

As I glanced into the mirror and mumbled, "I wish I could change my hair," I saw her in the mirror behind me whispering to herself, "I wish I could walk."

tags: perspective [add]

2006-10-18 14:27:36 / Rating: 156 /

Drew_Almighty

My wife and I promise each other that our love for one another will always come first, but now that our daughter is actually here we both know we're lying when we say it.

tags: kids parenting love lying babies [add]

2006-10-18 14:27:23 / Rating: 237.75 /

chris

I grabbed my brothers leg from underneath an adjacent toilet cubicle in a foodcourt and he ran out screaming.

tags: humor childhood brothers [add]

2006-10-18 14:27:10 / Rating: 182.75 /

Timothy

The diving alarm sounded, the deck dropped away like an elevator going down, my heart rose into my throat and I was officially a submarine sailor.

tags: navy firsts [add]

2006-10-18 14:26:46 / Rating: 96.25 /

Tina

It's the night before the insurance exam that I've spent three months preparing for, and I have a migraine.

tags: migraine test bad timing headache [add]

2006-10-17 17:38:40 / Rating: 113.5 /

Finster

I'd gone to bed really annoyed about failing to find the party to crash, but in the morning when we heard about the double murder, I clearly remember that my first thought was that bad luck is often good luck in disguise.

tags: luck murder party [add]

2006-10-17 15:05:54 / Rating: 182 /

distressing e

I don't really want to be an engineer but I REALLY don't want to be a failure to my parents.

tags: college stress parents [add]

2006-10-17 09:59:56 / Rating: 199.25 /

Your Friend

You could have bought me a first class trip around the world, but it wouldn't have meant as much as your hand on my neck did last night.

tags: love clubs friendship apathy neck [add]

2006-10-17 09:59:39 / Rating: 203.25 /

you know who i am

The only night he didn't say, "I'll see you tomorrow," was the night he passed away.

tags: death family [add]

2006-10-16 17:16:03 / Rating: 182.25 /

Lisa

I held tightly on to the umbrella, not because I was afraid that the wind would take it from me, but because I was hoping that it would take me with it.

tags: escape [add]

2006-10-16 16:40:42 / Rating: 166 /

Jonathan

As the eighth one in as many weeks clawed my back and squealed in my ear, it occurred to me that I loved the pretty girls much better back when they loved me not at all.

tags: sex boredom [add]

2006-10-16 14:51:53 / Rating: 136.75 /

revscrj

Two blocks of silence to the store we bought another EPT and a bottle of Rumplemintz, the big bottle.

tags: pregnancy relationships drinking [add]

2006-10-16 14:51:31 / Rating: 146.25 /

Robot Girl

I should be sleeping, but I keep thinkig about all of the things I need to do, should have done, and about how I don't want to screw everything up.

tags: love college essay school highschool homecoming family life future [add]

2006-10-16 14:51:10 / Rating: 248 /

Tina

My best friend was an evangelical athiest and eventually dumped me because I would not convert.

tags: athiest religion friendship [add]

2006-10-16 13:30:54 / Rating: 133 /

Ryan

My prom date announced to me, "Man, I have nasty PMS" and I pretty much knew I wouldn't be getting any.

tags: prom high school [add]

2006-10-16 13:02:48 / Rating: 161 /

Anonymous

As I look back on the last few minutes of my prom, the regret of not embracing her and kissing her eats away at my heart.

tags: prom kissing [add]

2006-10-16 13:01:19 / Rating: 115.5 /

Phil

As we were sitting there early on the morning of prom, she got out of my car and my heart hurt as I desperately tried to build up the courage to kiss her.

tags: love prom [add]

2006-10-16 13:00:57 / Rating: 141 /

Philip

My story hasn't been accepted by OneSentence.org and I'm asking myself if my life isn't even worth it to them.

tags: meta [add]

2006-10-16 12:56:46 / Rating: 132.5 /

chris

I only joined the climbing club because I wanted a reason to talk to her, but really I'm scared of heights.

tags: humor relationships love climbing [add]

2006-10-16 12:56:02 / Rating: 194 /

you know who i am

My sister once caught me looking at her chest.

tags: humor childhood family oops [add]

2006-10-16 12:54:36 / Rating: 193 /

elijah

Hell would be better.

tags: life sad [add]

2006-10-16 12:54:14 / Rating: 133.25 /

Ory'hara

My lover told me that she was drunk and wouldn't talk to me because of that, so I went to get drunk myself.

tags: love alcohol sad [add]

2006-10-16 12:53:56 / Rating: 129.25 /

Ory'hara

I once loved a girl more then anything in the world, and then she started drinking.

tags: love alcohol [add]

2006-10-16 12:53:51 / Rating: 132.25 /

Marianna

I should know better than to drink too much coffee and then contemplate what happens after death.

tags: life death coffee [add]

2006-10-16 12:53:36 / Rating: 177.75 /

oneman

When nobody's watching, i love to pull the hairs out of my nose.

tags: humor nose yoink [add]

2006-10-16 00:06:53 / Rating: 125.5 /

Eisenseele

Her eyes locked with mine and I felt sick with happy nausea, but she looked away without a smile.

tags: unrequited love crush [add]

2006-10-11 14:20:41 / Rating: 171 /

Lise

He said he loved me, but left me for another girl, only to try and win me back again.

tags: irony heartbreak [add]

2006-10-11 14:19:32 / Rating: 141 /

Timothy

I hadn't yet dressed as I poured the boiling water over the coffee filter tilting precariously over the rim of a broken pot.

tags: humor mistake ouch [add]

2006-10-11 14:19:21 / Rating: 150.25 /

Lula Belle

I discovered The Dealbreaker: a can of Skoal and a wad in his mouth were enough to make me walk in the opposite direction.

tags: men dating discovery anti-tobacco [add]

2006-10-11 14:18:34 / Rating: 144.5 /

Tina

I couldn't think of a polite way to say that I didn't want to look at her mother's corpse, so I buried my face in my husband's shoulder as we filed past the coffin.

tags: corpse death funeral ettiquette [add]

2006-10-11 12:16:37 / Rating: 188.5 /

J

As I stare at my 20.5 rating, I wonder about the policy on giving a "Yay!" to your own story.

tags: humor meta story yay [add]

2006-10-11 11:36:29 / Rating: 226 /

Liebe

She stood by the gate on the blackest of nights and listened for the sound of at least creaking, but she did not hear even the fluttering of a moth against the unfinished wood.

tags: night silence [add]

2006-10-11 11:35:52 / Rating: 89.25 /

Robot

She says that my awkwardness isn't a big deal and that it's cute, in fact, but when we kiss I can feel her holding back.

tags: infatuation awkwardness kiss [add]

2006-10-11 11:26:30 / Rating: 128.5 /

Sugar Plum Fairy

My girlfriend has a boyfriend, and I'm okay with that.

tags: gay relationships [add]

2006-10-11 11:26:02 / Rating: 170 /

Pennyoz

I love tall spikey shoes but I broke my ankle.

tags: shoes ouch broken bone [add]

2006-10-11 11:25:13 / Rating: 132.75 /

Alice

His mum was so restrictive with money it made me anorexic.

tags: couple anorexia mum money [add]

2006-10-11 11:24:52 / Rating: 120.75 /

Xaxx

The shrooms were coming on really strong, when between the stripper's legs, I saw the guy who had said he was going to kill me in high school.

tags: hallucination bully stripper drugs [add]

2006-10-11 11:16:57 / Rating: 133.75 /

jas0n

After the lego man's head was successfully extracted from my sinus at the pediatrician's office while my mother was in labor, my grandmother would not let me out of her sight.

tags: childhood grandmothers legos [add]

2006-10-11 11:16:20 / Rating: 155.75 /

brendan

My friend recently admitted that he until recently believed that cars were propelled forward by their own exhaust.

tags: humor misconception [add]

2006-10-11 11:15:57 / Rating: 192.25 /

Jeremy

When they handed me a medal for saving a man in Afghanistan, all I could think about was how I wasn't able to save the other two.

tags: war sadness death [add]

2006-10-11 11:14:53 / Rating: 304 /

WilsonOfPrussia

I used to have a lot of space and no wife, now I have no space and a lot of wife.

tags: marriage [add]

2006-10-11 11:14:40 / Rating: 146 /

Tina

No matter how long I've worked in insurance, I can't help giggling when I see a policy for "Erection All Risks."

tags: insurance immature childish [add]

2006-10-11 11:12:50 / Rating: 83.75 /

jas0n

Every morning as I take a shower, I compulsively think about the 1980s television program "Mr. Belvedere."

tags: television shower [add]

2006-10-11 11:11:42 / Rating: 121.75 /

WilsonOfPrussia

He promised, with all his heart, to call her tomorrow, which bought him another 24 hours every time he woke up.

tags: love [add]

2006-10-11 11:02:07 / Rating: 80.5 /

Reba

I never thought that laughing into another man's shoulder would classify me as a whore.

tags: jealousy marriage [add]

2006-10-11 10:57:35 / Rating: 143 /

Hacbarton

I've spent all high school following news stories that will probably never affect me to help myself forget my bisexuality.

tags: sexuality bisexuality high school [add]

2006-10-10 23:33:20 / Rating: 146.25 /

KF

The only professor I could find who was able to get accounting concepts through my thick skull died three weeks into the semester.

tags: death school college professor accounting [add]

2006-10-10 19:43:50 / Rating: 195 /

Chris

I spent three years wishing for the one thing I thought I wanted, and have spent all the time since wishing I hadn't wasted so much time in doing so.

tags: wishing regret wasted time [add]

2006-10-10 19:43:11 / Rating: 104.75 /

call me dave

I was there when they put him down, he never saw it coming because he was in so much pain.

tags: death pets [add]

2006-10-10 15:01:03 / Rating: 149.5 /

Jomamma

I'm in love with a beautiful pregnant woman who is not my wife.

tags: love pregnant cheating [add]

2006-10-10 10:41:31 / Rating: 179 /

Mae

I fell out of a bus once and broke my arm.

tags: ouch fall bus broken arm [add]

2006-10-10 10:40:27 / Rating: 137.25 /

Ryan

We'd never said a single word to each other, but I asked her out (unsuccessfully) when we slow danced for the first time.

tags: childhood puppy love camp [add]

2006-10-10 10:29:42 / Rating: 140.75 /

kimiko

I didn't feel as humiliated when he told me that at least six other people puked their guts out at the last house party, but I still made sure to stay sober this time.

tags: drinking drunk party [add]

2006-10-10 09:24:53 / Rating: 137.75 /

Sugar Plum Fairy

My girlfriend has a boyfriend thats homophobic.

tags: gay homophobia [add]

2006-10-09 23:33:14 / Rating: 111.5 /

Claris

He would complain that I wasn't feminine enough, but he left me for a dude.

tags: irony humor breakup [add]

2006-10-09 14:20:01 / Rating: 259 /

Spiff

My best friend thought it would be perfectly fine to save time by applying sunscreen while waiting for the shower to free up because the sunscreen was waterproof.

tags: sunscreen humor [add]

2006-10-09 13:45:29 / Rating: 120.25 /

Bryce

While I sit here teary eyed, reading stories I could have written from my own life, I think "How many of these are actually true?"

tags: paranoia trust meta [add]

2006-10-07 21:23:38 / Rating: 166 /

cmonk

I was lost into a world of abuse, sex, and alcoholism at the ripe old age of three and it went downhill from there until my first day of sobriety some 20 years ago.

tags: childhood abuse sex hope alcohol [add]

2006-10-05 12:55:20 / Rating: 193.5 /

cz

She embraced me with the warmth of her skin, the wine on her breath and the smile on her lips and I felt absolutely nothing.

tags: relationship humor tragedy nothing beginning of the end memory regret [add]

2006-10-05 10:56:08 / Rating: 208.5 /

DuckFu

I couldn't count the number of wonderful and terrible experiences I've had in life on one hand, though I can count the number of men I know feel blessed by those exact experiences with one finger.

tags: [add]

2006-10-05 10:55:29 / Rating: 53 /

Allen Strider

Three years of memories flooded my head and I gripped the couch while she drunkenly flirted with him all night, right in front of me, before I stormed out forever.

tags: lost love pain [add]

2006-10-05 10:54:22 / Rating: 173.5 /

Lump

One second I was riding my bike down a hill the next I was on the asphalt crying with my shoulder torn apart.

tags: childhood drama biking [add]

2006-10-04 17:47:41 / Rating: 126.25 /

Dino

WOULD IT KILL YOU TO HAVE ONE FUCKING VEGAN OPTION, CONTINENTAL AIRLINES AND YOU DELAYED HIS FLIGHT BY LIKE ELEVENTYTHOUSAND HOURS AND I HATE YOU AND YOUR MOM.

tags: vegan flying slightly angry [add]

2006-10-04 14:35:55 / Rating: 132.5 /

Lisa

I made a list and crossed out all the subjects that I knew right away I didn't want to major in, and in the end all that was left was Neuroscience, so I went with that.

tags: school college major [add]

2006-10-04 13:12:59 / Rating: 177.25 /

Christopher

I shaved my mutton chops away today today, but now I feel like a sheep.

tags: facial hair humor conformity sheep [add]

2006-10-03 15:52:30 / Rating: 139 /

call me dave

Christmas will be hard this year with two girlfriends.

tags: christmas love girlfriends [add]

2006-10-03 15:40:28 / Rating: 166.5 /

call me dave

As the sun rose over the bay and the waves lapped at my feet, I reclined into the sunlounger and watched the first day of my holiday start.

tags: holiday waves sun [add]

2006-10-03 10:53:13 / Rating: 80.5 /

Mar-One

It was late at night, my tooth was aching, and my roommate was sitting next to me, driving me insane with his lipsmacking.

tags: annoying tooth roommate [add]

2006-10-03 10:51:08 / Rating: 120 /

DarkSoul Sister

When I opened the door there was a policeman holding my mother's driver's license and throwing uncomfortable glances to the chaplin beside him.

tags: death [add]

2006-10-03 10:50:25 / Rating: 589.5 /

Don't call me Shirley

I was more than half asleep when I heard my father speaking, but I didn't understand he was telling me she was dead.

tags: death family childhood sad [add]

2006-10-03 10:50:02 / Rating: 216.5 /

DarkSoul Sister

We had been broken up a month when I learned he married another women while we were together.

tags: cheating adultery infidelity lying heartbreak [add]

2006-10-03 10:48:34 / Rating: 210.75 /

Christopher

Grasshoppers need their hind legs to live.

tags: entomology childhood grasshoppers murder [add]

2006-10-03 10:43:15 / Rating: 195 /

call me dave

It was the first movie I went to see but never saw, heard but never listened to and came out smiling without knowing the ending.

tags: love movie movies humor [add]

2006-10-02 18:45:41 / Rating: 232.25 /

Mr.Benn

It was upon the waking with red knuckles and bruises... I realize, I'm addicted.

tags: fighting moshing pain realization ouch [add]

2006-10-02 16:32:52 / Rating: 155 /

Avdibeg

Few will admit, but I am, honestly speaking, a man of few words and many ideas that only need to be written down on a paper.

tags: thought words idea [add]

2006-10-02 16:32:40 / Rating: 74 /

Annaline

My friends always told me, "When something is wrong talk to us, we are here for you," and when I did they told me not too.

tags: feelings friends [add]

2006-10-02 14:43:45 / Rating: 144.75 /

W.C. Manchester

After four days of hemming and hawing, we finally made our love in the front seat of my car hidden in an apple orchard.

tags: sex