Ruben C.
She tore out my heart, yet still on Christmas morning I received a cheerful message from her as if nothing had happened.
2006-12-30 13:53:55 / Rating: 171.75 / 
Story archives - December 2006
PHDrillSergeant
Christmas is nothing but loneliness followed by 365 shopping days until even more loneliness.
2006-12-27 12:01:46 / Rating: 137.5 /
Sarie
Last night I realized I am in love with you.
2006-12-27 11:57:51 / Rating: 112.75 /
Jess D'Zerts
I never dreamed I'd find myself dangling upside down in a hollow tree looking for a four-year-old Rubbermaid box with an eraser in it, but there I was.
2006-12-27 11:57:32 / Rating: 134.25 /
Sociologist Tina
I fear that people would believe me to be a malingerer, and even my estranged father, upon hearing about the dilemma which my symptoms presented, commented, "I think you're allergic to work."
2006-12-27 11:55:49 / Rating: 167.25 /
Sociologist Tina
As I stared at the stunningly precious likeness before me, I blithely told him that if I were in his shoes, I'd be telling everyone that my baby looked just like me!
2006-12-27 11:55:14 / Rating: 139.5 /
Please don't.
I told them all I was raped, when the only assault that occured was that of my mind against my body.
2006-12-27 11:54:06 / Rating: 120.25 /
Jim Ware
As she bandaged my hands I told her of my new plans for worming the cat.
2006-12-27 11:53:48 / Rating: 235.25 /
Kate
In the past 24 hours, I have seen 9 cars with Menorahs on their roofs.
2006-12-27 11:53:15 / Rating: 94 /
Rusty
She contacted me for the first time in 18 months, with the same issues she had 18 months ago.
2006-12-22 00:33:56 / Rating: 92.5 /
Gareth
I never knew what I wanted from life, except to be a better father to my children (if I have any) than mine was to me.
2006-12-22 00:33:17 / Rating: 173.5 /
Steve
When I told him the truth, he was packed by sunrise.
2006-12-22 00:32:07 / Rating: 127.25 /
Cabbage
When she asked today if I love him, I replied with "yes."
2006-12-22 00:31:49 / Rating: 131.25 /
Steiv
She sort of reminded me of James Woods, minus the swagger and cigarettes.
2006-12-22 00:31:41 / Rating: 71.75 /
Joanna
I once thought that not growing up sick would make me a better person, but then I learned that the opposite was true.
2006-12-22 00:31:34 / Rating: 157.75 /
Ryan
I interviewed "Body Parts Lady."
2006-12-21 15:09:04 / Rating: 113.75 /
Ryan
In high school I cleaned banks after hours and enjoyed it more than almost any job I've had since.
2006-12-21 15:01:49 / Rating: 126 /
jeff
As the fire grew larger and larger and the dumpster grew ablaze, I felt only the heat of guilt as my friend stared remorsefully out the window when the police arrived.
2006-12-21 14:52:06 / Rating: 108.25 /
PieceMeApart
In this empty house I called home, it was there I knew I was to be lonely the rest of my life.
2006-12-21 14:51:49 / Rating: 108 /
A
I told him that I would have become a citizen of Iran for him and then I changed my mind.
2006-12-21 14:51:37 / Rating: 179.5 /
Knick
While I was at work making money for her, she was with some other guy.
2006-12-21 14:51:25 / Rating: 156.5 /
littlemourges
True stories, told in one sentence, are best suited as necessary and urgent confessions.
2006-12-21 14:44:57 / Rating: 103 /
Mimz
One week after her accident, I saw her again; she didn't recognize me, but I knew she remembered what I'd done for her.
2006-12-21 14:44:37 / Rating: 159.25 /
Octesian
After many minutes in the garage, I had found the brown denim jacket with the corduroy collar.
2006-12-21 14:44:27 / Rating: 57.5 /
Rain
The stench of cow poop is forgotten while running barefoot in a dairy farm pen as a pack of cows starts running at you.
2006-12-21 14:44:11 / Rating: 130.75 /
zooey
Only later did I realize that the taxi driver wasn't making an obscene gesture, but rather, trying to inform me that I had left a box of takeout on the roof of my car.
2006-12-18 13:59:44 / Rating: 400 /
JJ
I pressed the panic button and when 5 fully armed policemen arrived with the security company, I was even more afraid.
2006-12-18 10:01:11 / Rating: 169 /
Flood
"It's an interesting coincidence that the third advent candle is lit on the third day of Channukah this year," said the Muslim gleefully.
2006-12-18 10:00:46 / Rating: 164 /
Mimi Ghez
When I got my period at age 12, my father stood outside the bathroom door, trying to make me feel better by singing the words to a popular 1970s commercial, "You are a W - U - O - M - A - N, you are a woooman!"
2006-12-15 22:07:47 / Rating: 253.25 /
Ridzwan
With so many people to love in my life, why do I worry about one?
2006-12-15 22:06:59 / Rating: 100.75 /
Tina
At 9am I was turned down for a promotion and at 3pm found out that I failed the professional exam I was sure I had passed.
2006-12-15 22:05:48 / Rating: 120.25 /
ceruleanblue
Tonight I had to tell my youngest son to stay in his room with the door locked because his brother was in such a rage.
2006-12-15 22:04:18 / Rating: 149.75 /
ceruleanblue
I have never felt so empty and sad as I do this year at Christmas.
2006-12-15 22:02:45 / Rating: 123.5 /
Aisling
I was the only one not laughing as I turned and apologized for bumping into him, only afterwards realizing I had just apologized to a wooden pole.
2006-12-15 15:12:08 / Rating: 189.75 /
GorillaStretch
I hit my head on the floor when I was 7 and since then my life has gone progressively downhill.
2006-12-15 15:11:29 / Rating: 137.75 /
Jonas
I was looking for red wallpaper the day I got the idea for a remote controlled toilet.
2006-12-15 15:10:32 / Rating: 129 /
Jared
After checking his email for the 437th time that day, he realized his love for his job was like most people's love for feces.
2006-12-12 14:36:57 / Rating: 158.25 /
Chris
She said she'd never give up on me, but now she's with a drummer.
2006-12-11 20:25:27 / Rating: 141.75 /
MIA Robin
I was suddenly uninvited from my step daughter's wedding so the man who had brutalized her mother for 25 years could show up in a borrowed suit and later depart after the reception without even saying goodbye to anyone.
2006-12-11 20:24:32 / Rating: 211.75 /
Brightlighs
It was in equally shared tears of a naive teenaged girl that I realized that I too was rid of my childhood.
2006-12-11 20:24:08 / Rating: 179.5 /
Lily
On Sunday morning when I woke up I didn't have a dog, but by Sunday afternoon I was chasing ducks in the park with Zeus.
2006-12-11 20:23:54 / Rating: 172 /
Elizabeth
If I booed the one-sentence story of someone's life on OneSentence.org, does that mean I'm a bad person?
2006-12-11 20:22:55 / Rating: 114.25 /
KAOS
It's not always the best idea getting drunk with your colleagues, but it's interesting!
2006-12-10 13:16:00 / Rating: 147.75 /
Can you pay karmatic debt in advance?
After severly hurting my foot, losing my job, being evicted from our home without cause, nursing my 3 year old through strep, picking my fiance and his totaled car up at the hospital, and going into debt, I wondered, "what else can happen in one month?"
2006-12-10 13:15:25 / Rating: 180.25 /
Beth
The car was packed and loaded, and with tears in my eyes I hugged my son and said goodbye.
2006-12-10 13:14:36 / Rating: 178.5 /
me
Even though I'm 99.9% sure he'll break my heart, the 0.1% chance he won't keeps me from leaving.
2006-12-06 12:29:34 / Rating: 216.75 /
The Rik
I realized, ironically, that the reason it smelled like permanent marker next to my bed, was because my fish tank sprung a leak from the bottom and soaked my video game booklets.
2006-12-05 17:15:17 / Rating: 134 /
Peabodie
After serving liquor to alcoholics all day, I realised that I am, in fact, a bad person.
2006-12-05 14:32:37 / Rating: 225.5 /
Sparlingo
He salvaged what was left of me and yet it seems that this fact is of little interest to the world.
2006-12-05 14:32:11 / Rating: 122 /
Sputnik
Then the doctor said the Crohn's is something you can live with, and that the stomach pain will be gone in a couple of days, but he was wrong.
2006-12-05 14:31:40 / Rating: 134.25 /
The Ordinary
It is the definition of irony that you confess to me now, here in the broom closet, when I know that my breath reeks something fierce.
2006-12-05 12:28:55 / Rating: 230 /
Deborah
I always think I can get more done in a day than I really do thanks to my 2 wild cards - ages 2 and 5.
2006-12-05 12:27:57 / Rating: 159.25 /
long way from home
In the weeks of my stardom in Nigeria as a 5'2 white female "didn't make the cut in high school" basketball player I regained my confidence.
2006-12-05 12:27:53 / Rating: 163.75 /
Olivoi
I didn't realize until the Black History Program had already begun that it was probably a bad idea to sit with the Nazi boy.
2006-12-05 12:27:14 / Rating: 196.75 /
MIA Robin
Just as my boss began to speak at the company Christmas dinner, she simultaneously sneezed and farted, stopping every fork in midair.
2006-12-05 09:39:03 / Rating: 287.5 /
em
I've been waiting all day for you to call and apologize so I could hang up on you.
2006-12-05 09:37:54 / Rating: 249 /
The guy who ate Pacman
I was lying in bed when my stomach made a sound like Pacman dying.
2006-12-04 15:33:45 / Rating: 194.5 /
MIA Robin
My mother took great delight in pointing out my shyness to strangers who were kinder to me than she ever was.
2006-12-04 15:33:27 / Rating: 165.75 /
Jess D'Zerts
The summer I turned sixteen, he flew me over our neighborhood during the Fourth of July pool party, but that wasn't the time his plane went down.
2006-12-04 11:03:55 / Rating: 131 /
Sparlingo
Walking away, it became clear that what was 30 minutes to me was for him an end to years of a most crushing hatred.
2006-12-04 09:32:39 / Rating: 128.25 /
Olivoi
I had never heard the band before, but I got into two of their shows for free in one week, so I pretended to be a fan.
2006-12-04 09:32:15 / Rating: 122.5 /
JT
After years of traveling, it dawned on her she was the one left behind.
2006-12-03 23:22:44 / Rating: 126.25 /
JT
I knew as I walked out, you'd make sure your brother and sister were safe, but I never expected you to survive your childhood.
2006-12-03 23:22:35 / Rating: 196.25 /
Coryn
My cousin won a pig in a contest and on the day it vanished mysteriously, my grandama served us my favorite pork dish for lunch.
2006-12-01 18:22:20 / Rating: 143.5 /