Tony
When he died, my life ever after was lived with an asterisk next to the events in my life that would have been better had he been there.
2007-01-31 10:59:54 / Rating: 258.5 / 
Story archives - January 2007
jen
I'm pretty sure I just dropped a pushpin on the floor and I know my roommate will step on it.
2007-01-31 09:45:46 / Rating: 124 /
Element
After three nights of passing out drunk and bleeding, I decided it might be time to talk to someone.
2007-01-30 16:47:50 / Rating: 149 /
sarah
I knew it would be a bad day when the bagel place told me they would have to fill the rest of my coffee cup with decaf.
2007-01-30 11:15:17 / Rating: 176.75 /
Melanie
You think I can't track your lies, but what you haven't realized is that I've been reading all your emails ever since we split up.
2007-01-29 11:11:37 / Rating: 202.5 /
violet
I found you asleep cuddling with my best friend, so I stole your shoes and buried them in the snow.
2007-01-25 11:31:56 / Rating: 238.75 /
Serena
I decided to never look at his MySpace page again.
2007-01-25 11:28:03 / Rating: 239 /
Dj Detonator
A mix of anxiety and euphoria exploded within me the moment I placed the needle on the record.
2007-01-24 17:52:57 / Rating: 115.25 /
Marianna
After the bizarre 4" of snow last week, it was utterly blissful to spend this afternoon hiking in the 45 degree sunshine.
2007-01-24 17:52:47 / Rating: 86 /
Sasha
Despite our height difference, we found he can still comfortably kiss me goodnight if I stand on the third stair up at the front door.
2007-01-24 17:52:39 / Rating: 184.75 /
Sasha
My eyes watered and I got all choked up as the officer checked off the "FAIL" box on my road test application for the 2nd time this week.
2007-01-24 17:52:22 / Rating: 117.25 /
Sasha
12 job applications in less than a week, and not one phonecall.
2007-01-24 17:52:03 / Rating: 97 /
Brian Gawenus
I would never believe that my ex-wife's new boyfriend's wife would be my new wife.
2007-01-23 14:36:07 / Rating: 165.25 /
rp
I would never tell my family this, but I blame my father's wife for his death.
2007-01-23 14:35:12 / Rating: 150.25 /
Olivoi
Just as I was beginning to have hope that maybe life here has meaning, I was reassured that as a student in public high school, I have no rights.
2007-01-23 09:52:37 / Rating: 138.75 /
Olivoi
The best benefit of being good is that you can get away with almost anything.
2007-01-23 09:52:23 / Rating: 156.75 /
JJ
You turned to look at your computer screen, and I knew that everything I had said meant about as much to you as your last game of solitaire.
2007-01-23 09:52:09 / Rating: 148 /
Alleged Actor CJ
The frigid stage seemed to vibrate, causing me to tremble throughout the audition.
2007-01-23 09:51:35 / Rating: 67 /
Sasha
I decided not to give him my number when he asked "Yo girl, can I getcho digits?!"
2007-01-23 09:51:05 / Rating: 93.5 /
Like Soy
The nudity requirement seemed like a fair way to decide who, of the party's 30+ attendees, would get to play the Wii.
2007-01-22 14:56:22 / Rating: 204.5 /
Katherine L
"Today," she decided, "today I will wash my sheets."
2007-01-22 12:40:39 / Rating: 75.25 /
Megan
Falling in love with a homophobe was probably the stupidest thing I've ever done.
2007-01-22 12:39:58 / Rating: 162 /
VintageMama
I was 42 and single when I got pregnant for the first time and my very religious parents surprised me by being happy rather than disowning me.
2007-01-22 12:39:51 / Rating: 182.75 /
Ray
Asking a software engineer to fix your computer is like asking an historian what he did last night.
2007-01-22 12:39:24 / Rating: 140 /
Astros fan
I'd never have guessed the girl I didn't know sitting to my right at the baseball game would become the love of my life and the woman of my dreams.
2007-01-22 12:38:48 / Rating: 137 /
Consequences
I was so desperate for human affection that I had alienated all of my friends in the process.
2007-01-22 12:38:29 / Rating: 149.25 /
Amarie
As I sat numbly answering the phone, i realized how unfair it is that something you have absolutely no control over can make you so miserable you don't enjoy anything anymore.
2007-01-19 09:30:10 / Rating: 141.75 /
dac
And there she left me clueless, on the eve of her mother's wedding day.
2007-01-19 09:29:49 / Rating: 136.75 /
Savannah's Dad
Your child is yours until you invite the goverment into your life to determine who she actually belongs to.
2007-01-16 14:55:44 / Rating: 93.75 /
jbornebu
When David and I decided to switch partners, the girls agreed and took off together, leaving us behind.
2007-01-16 14:55:17 / Rating: 164 /
green_jacket
I went on the page again, only to see that none of my sentences were posted.
2007-01-11 10:45:16 / Rating: 145.75 /
Lisa918
When I handed the final exam back to her, I asked, "Did you study"?
2007-01-11 10:45:02 / Rating: 96.75 /
celia
I had a crush on him because he was good at Physics, and for no other reason.
2007-01-09 11:35:54 / Rating: 152 /
Not Meanspirited
As I sat on the couch in my boxer shorts, watching football and having nothing of import to do, I realized once and for all that I actually enjoy being single.
2007-01-09 11:35:34 / Rating: 152 /
Duncan S
I seriously enjoyed being a clown, until I realized clowns aren't taken seriously.
2007-01-09 11:34:22 / Rating: 131.5 /
stella stink
"Punk is dead," zero said.
2007-01-09 11:34:10 / Rating: 102.75 /
Sam
When my best friend and the love of my life were both taken into police custody for the same crime, the saddest part was admitting to myself I knew who had done it.
2007-01-05 16:08:15 / Rating: 210.5 /
GMcC
I have been in Hawaii for four days and I have four dollars left.
2007-01-04 22:04:01 / Rating: 164 /
Kristen
As I read the note I wrote to myself three years ago, I wished that I could go back and talk to the girl I used to be.
2007-01-04 22:03:34 / Rating: 205 /
Sisslia
As I heard his footsteps on the stairway, my heart was thumping as I hit alt-tab on the keyboard.
2007-01-02 15:53:30 / Rating: 130.75 /
Frank
In one night I was introduced to James Joyce incarnate and kissed by many old men on tiptoe who couldn't seem to see over my breasts...
2007-01-02 15:53:12 / Rating: 102.5 /
Chris
As I leaned to kiss her on the cheek, she decided the lips would be better, and my heart stopped mid-beat.
2007-01-01 19:58:45 / Rating: 327 /
I'll miss you
After I post this, I'm going to go tell the girl that I love, my best friend, that I never want to see her again because she can't love me back.
2007-01-01 19:57:59 / Rating: 241 /
Atherness
When we brought in the eighth cat for the second time, I remember thinking, "This is yet another step on the pathway to Crazy Cat Ladyhood."
2007-01-01 19:57:30 / Rating: 166.75 /
M. Love
My heart is slowly breaking.
2007-01-01 19:56:59 / Rating: 187.5 /
Serena
Friends are there for you no matter what, unless they sleep with your boyfriend.
2007-01-01 19:56:20 / Rating: 195.75 /
mr honest
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I never thought I would be left so alone.
2007-01-01 16:10:28 / Rating: 141.75 /
PUK
Before I started to try getting pregnant I never would have thought I would have the strength to go through the treatments that I now consider a part of daily living.
2007-01-01 16:08:55 / Rating: 115.25 /
A.j. Michel
The only time my father ever considered breaking the speed limit was on the highway to the hospital, where I was delivered ten minutes after arrival.
2007-01-01 12:37:03 / Rating: 129 /
Silence
The day he left, Christmas Eve, he told me he'd found another.
2007-01-01 12:36:42 / Rating: 108.75 /