felix
I jumped up and down outside the audition room because it went so well, but apparently their opinions of my talent were different.
2006-11-30 12:46:40 / Rating: 139.5 / 
Story archives - November 2006
Cricky
I was humble until the day I realized I was humble.
2006-11-30 12:42:52 / Rating: 169.5 /
Baron Raymundo
To this very day my kid brother still won't touch anything if I tell him it tastes like chocolate.
2006-11-29 15:16:20 / Rating: 243.25 /
Stevie Gee
And that was the last time I ever presumed that a woman was pregnant and asked "When are you due?"
2006-11-29 14:27:20 / Rating: 170.75 /
Nachomamma
My mental illness drove me to seek help, but his mental illness drove him to molest his patients.
2006-11-29 12:01:41 / Rating: 177 /
Krista
I didn't realize I had forgotten to take the pump out of my tank until I drove away.
2006-11-29 10:41:05 / Rating: 165.75 /
eamwkc
I came down from the heights after connecting lights to lights and flipped the switch to see the brilliance.
2006-11-29 09:26:52 / Rating: 119.25 /
JT
No one in the crowded pub told me I had toilet paper trailing behind me until I reached the bar.
2006-11-29 09:26:02 / Rating: 167.75 /
JT
After deliberating for hours on how to finish with her epileptic boyfriend, she phoned him only to discover he'd had a fit and lost his memory.
2006-11-29 09:25:45 / Rating: 117.75 /
Sasha
I guess he was trying to play "footsies" with me, but I took it as I was in his way, so I moved my feet.
2006-11-28 17:05:57 / Rating: 153.75 /
Kate O
My day had been terrible, but just as I thought it couldn't have gotten any worse, he, in an act of pure thoughtfulness, brought me a Pepsi to replace the one that had exploded in my backpack.
2006-11-28 10:02:33 / Rating: 141 /
Kate O
In my psychology course, we're talking about sleep deprivation and its negative effects on the body, and yet my workload in that class causes me to pull an all-nighter at least once a week.
2006-11-28 10:02:21 / Rating: 213 /
Mr. X
She tried to touch my lips as I sat stoned on the kitchen floor, but I kissed her hair instead, and left her for the cooler.
2006-11-28 10:01:45 / Rating: 154.25 /
she has no name
When I was 2 years old, I nearly burst into tears because Minnie Mouse's house was plastic.
2006-11-28 09:59:39 / Rating: 158.75 /
Jose
Our cleaning angel taught me the kitchen cupboards aren't yellow on the inside.
2006-11-27 17:55:58 / Rating: 111.75 /
bah
Sometimes I forget names, but that day my failing memory made me see him as a complete stranger, and he never forgave me.
2006-11-27 14:36:08 / Rating: 137.25 /
SS
When I was 12 my mom told me that I should sleep with as many men as possible.
2006-11-27 10:34:46 / Rating: 196.5 /
Rajesh. P.I
I have been searching the real and the virtual world in vain for Mrs. Zeta, my wonderful school teacher, for the last 16 years.
2006-11-26 14:46:16 / Rating: 172 /
Coryn
We stood there in the rain and the look on his face as the police came rushing in made me realize I was never going to see him again.
2006-11-22 11:47:51 / Rating: 200.25 /
Olivoi
After recess in Pre-K, I hid behind a big tree so I wouldn't have to go back to class.
2006-11-21 15:24:16 / Rating: 187.5 /
lau
She is a socialist and she is shorter than I am, but I wake up at night sometimes because my heart pumps too hard when I dream about kissing her.
2006-11-21 11:43:35 / Rating: 208 /
Kate O
At school on Monday, all of the other kids couldn't stop talking about Michael's death but I lived in fear of what they might say if they knew I was in the car that killed him.
2006-11-21 10:23:17 / Rating: 237.75 /
Victoria
I slept with your pillow every night while you were gone because it smelled like you, but now... it smells like me.
2006-11-21 10:02:14 / Rating: 258 /
DD
My boyfriend of 2 years admitted that he's only attracted to me because of my large breasts.
2006-11-21 10:01:16 / Rating: 140 /
not just looks
She told me that my uncle is really my father.
2006-11-21 10:01:00 / Rating: 129.5 /
The guy wearing the bowler hat
Ever notice how a specific type of person never turns you on until you have a crush on that specific type of person?
2006-11-21 10:00:10 / Rating: 175.25 /
Sheik Damo
I just made a nice sandwich and it has gravy.
2006-11-21 09:55:35 / Rating: 151.5 /
Rae
"If you think that will help," I said blankly, and with those words, I planted the seeds for two years of mourning.
2006-11-21 09:55:15 / Rating: 203.25 /
Sasha
My mom's idea of grounding me is taking away my 3-page fold out posters from Cosmo Girl that are hanging on the wall next to my bed.
2006-11-21 09:53:55 / Rating: 71.75 /
TKD
It was when I was being taken to the emergency room with unexplained excruciating back pain that I had just turned thirty.
2006-11-21 09:53:19 / Rating: 118.25 /
Steven
It wasn't suicide.
2006-11-21 09:52:25 / Rating: 199.5 /
Zigmund
If I wasn't depressed, I wouldn't have fallen for you, but I was, and I did, and I'm sorry for what's about to happen.
2006-11-21 09:23:41 / Rating: 190 /
Lucas "Cobra" Spann
The Rocky movies make me cry.
2006-11-20 09:50:36 / Rating: 56 /
Someone you know
We're not going to be ok...
2006-11-16 16:02:54 / Rating: 211.75 /
Shifter
After being duped into thinking a hot girl actually was interested in me, that hooker stole my weed.
2006-11-16 09:44:16 / Rating: 249.5 /
Kate O
When my father heard the loud hissing noise coming from the whole train, he realized that no, that was NOT the door handle.
2006-11-16 09:43:48 / Rating: 194.5 /
"Sweetie"
After he dropped me off at the airport, I waited for him to circle back around the terminal (like they do in the movies) because I would have gotten back in.
2006-11-16 00:09:27 / Rating: 162.25 /
Lizz
I used to think that Pokemon lived in the ditch by my house.
2006-11-16 00:08:48 / Rating: 97.75 /
A Sub
In my early 20's I went to an S&M party wanting to be a 'slave' to a Dominant Woman but left before the party started, because I was a slave to my fears.
2006-11-16 00:07:43 / Rating: 118 /
G. Moss
She almost makes me wish I believed in God.
2006-11-16 00:06:15 / Rating: 183.75 /
James
I have writer's block.
2006-11-15 14:36:09 / Rating: 126 /
Miss.NoName
Sometimes I wish that my best friend would die so me and her mom could be closer.
2006-11-13 18:06:50 / Rating: 207.5 /
Xip
I was successfully hiding from you the fading hickies he'd given me... until you unraveled my scarf to rub my neck.
2006-11-13 14:21:33 / Rating: 190.5 /
Anon
I can't forgive my father.
2006-11-13 14:19:48 / Rating: 155.5 /
Lem
When I was 5, I was in love with a kid who thought he was Spiderman.
2006-11-13 14:19:38 / Rating: 200.75 /
SomeGuy
They day I realized we might not be together forever was the day she asked me out on a date, and the day I made the hardest decision I've ever made.
2006-11-13 14:18:56 / Rating: 154 /
David
Of all the 'weaknesses' I wish I had, forgiveness is one of them.
2006-11-10 16:54:12 / Rating: 144 /
Random Person
People used to shun me for my freakishness, now they love me because of it.
2006-11-09 16:09:32 / Rating: 162.25 /
Loulou
We'd been best friends for over 18 years, and then he kissed me.
2006-11-09 09:59:57 / Rating: 208.25 /
christoph
The children anticipated the rising of the sun, as if they were nocturnal creatures of the wood, and reluctantly scurried back to their houses to welcome another day.
2006-11-09 09:59:23 / Rating: 108.5 /
Johnny Panic
I never figured out that she was your sister until the family reunion twenty years later.
2006-11-09 09:59:11 / Rating: 200.5 /
txsdave
After our usual back fence bull session, complaining about shady politicians and the sad state of the world, my neighbor walked into his house picked up a shotgun and blew his head off.
2006-11-09 09:58:30 / Rating: 177.75 /
LikeSoy
I don't eat meat, because my mother's friend ate our pet cow.
2006-11-08 13:09:18 / Rating: 187 /
A. Mouse
The scariest thing anyone has ever said to me is that they thought I was capable of rape.
2006-11-06 09:30:05 / Rating: 152.5 /
She called me Roxxy
It's been almost four years, and I still cant forget her smile as she walked away without a goodbye.
2006-11-05 18:40:51 / Rating: 136.75 /
Rev
Although it took me some time to learn how to properly smoke tweak using the glass pipe, I have spent longer attempting to discover how to reverse the effect that it's had on my life- to no avail.
2006-11-05 18:40:34 / Rating: 170 /
Angel
The worst thing about secret girlfriends is that when they get hit by cars you're not supposed to cry.
2006-11-05 14:09:01 / Rating: 1264.75 /
Zuriel
I'm still not sure which part of that night made me fall in love with her, the conversation or seeing her topless.
2006-11-05 14:08:37 / Rating: 181.75 /
Aaron
It wasn't until after I cut up my arm that I realized that I didn't have to.
2006-11-05 14:08:09 / Rating: 90.75 /
Pocketwatch Pope
It wasn't until the next day that they found out they had both called me at the same time and that, if they hadn't, none of us would have been alive to realize it.
2006-11-05 11:42:39 / Rating: 176 /
Anon
I was teaching on 9/11, and after I dismissed my students, for a long time afterward I couldn't interact with any of them without wondering if I would eventually read that they had "died in the service of their country."
2006-11-05 11:42:26 / Rating: 167.75 /
Clara
I went to nerd camp, and it might have been the best thing that's ever happened to me.
2006-11-05 11:42:00 / Rating: 158.5 /
Anonymous
It was during a philosophy class, sitting bored and staring at the wall, that I wondered 'Why the hell am I here?'.
2006-11-05 11:40:28 / Rating: 202 /
Lilbraen
I really thought this would be the job that made me, but apparently hiring the big cheese's daughter was more important than the education of hundreds.
2006-11-05 11:40:11 / Rating: 45.75 /
row
Reading through last year's journal, I see the words I can't even remember thinking.
2006-11-04 14:08:36 / Rating: 142.75 /
Eureka
No matter what happens to me I will never be able to escape the haunting incorrigible realization that my first boyfriend never touched his lips to mine in that lusted display of affection known as a kiss.
2006-11-01 16:22:45 / Rating: 172.75 /
Zorya
The beauty of being a belly dancer is buying a rhinestone-studded costume is practical.
2006-11-01 16:22:19 / Rating: 98.5 /
Frankie
I hated her, but now when she accuses me of it, I feel my chest ache with love, and I realize I've ruined something fragile from the beginning.
2006-11-01 16:21:29 / Rating: 186.5 /
Lily
When we were eleven he was grossed out when I accidentally took a drink from his glass, but by the time we were sixteen he actually wanted to swap spit with me.
2006-11-01 16:20:27 / Rating: 201.75 /
J
I can't describe it, but it was the strangest feeling when I realized I was alone in a dermatologist's office reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Fates Worse Than Death."
2006-11-01 16:19:53 / Rating: 140.5 /
KidZero
I didn't know what frightened me more, waking up covered in blood or realizing it was mine.
2006-11-01 16:19:18 / Rating: 188.5 /
Bec
I was overjoyed when I heard that he broke up with the love of his life, because that meant maybe I had a chance to take her place.
2006-11-01 16:18:54 / Rating: 123.75 /
Bec
I hate that I'm always right.
2006-11-01 16:17:59 / Rating: 162.25 /
KC
I stared at the bucket of stale cheese puffs in disbelief and thought, "I can't believe I paid 9 bucks to eat at this lousy Chinese buffet!"
2006-11-01 16:17:48 / Rating: 155.5 /