M
I really really like her, but after our first date last night she told me she was already seeing someone else.
2007-04-27 16:36:08 / Rating: 320 / 
Story archives - April 2007
MM
When my friend returned from Hong Kong, she brought me an eternally arm-waving plastic cat.
2007-04-27 16:34:01 / Rating: 313.5 /
Employed
As I search for my 5th job in 14 months, I realize I'll never know what I want to be when I grow up.
2007-04-27 16:33:47 / Rating: 308.75 /
MrA
I'm going travelling in two months, and although all my plans and friends are here, I'm still not sure I'll come back.
2007-04-27 16:33:38 / Rating: 307.75 /
MG
I've always tried to be kind to the elderly, but when the nice old man with Alzheimers started giving me another leftover brick from his new patio everyday, I admit it wore my nerves.
2007-04-27 16:33:15 / Rating: 313.75 /
Gigi
A twenty year career with twenty more to go is motivation to quit.
2007-04-27 16:32:47 / Rating: 333.25 /
your wife
I chose him, but now that I have him I frequently entertain thoughts of doing him bodily harm.
2007-04-27 16:32:30 / Rating: 272 /
Just a guy
A hooker stole my best friend's dog.
2007-04-25 15:55:20 / Rating: 374.25 /
Miss.NoName
Though I was only 6, I knew how wrong I was to let my grandparents dog rapidly hump my pelvis, behind his dog house that spring.
2007-04-25 15:55:07 / Rating: 393.75 /
Hopeless
As I stood outside watching my breath merge with the cold air and starlight, I realized that he will never need me as much as I need him to need me.
2007-04-25 15:54:45 / Rating: 651.25 /
Judith Thompson
I don't want him to see that I carved the word 'FAT' into my thigh with a razor, not because of what he'll think of me for being a self-harmer, but because he might agree with my thigh.
2007-04-25 15:53:44 / Rating: 467.25 /
tRaCy
The bottom of the coffee cup broke away like a Dutch dike with no little finger to slow the flow.
2007-04-25 15:53:31 / Rating: 242 /
Sasha
I just couldn't understand why my mother had no reaction when I informed her that her cat's name meant "penis" in another language.
2007-04-25 15:52:51 / Rating: 388.25 /
Eric
Everyday I stare at her back, wanting nothing more than to give her a hug.
2007-04-25 15:51:24 / Rating: 305 /
Gravity
I had a key-logger, and now, seven years later, I'm still reading my old flatmates' email without guilt.
2007-04-25 15:51:15 / Rating: 192.5 /
wheresthebread
She caught sight of her face in the mirror and screamed.
2007-04-25 15:50:55 / Rating: 173.5 /
Doom of Doom
I got into the all of the colleges that I had applied for, but now I have to figure out which one I actually want to go to.
2007-04-25 15:50:48 / Rating: 259.5 /
GoingLikeSixty
Sometimes God says no to your prayers, so she died.
2007-04-24 21:13:42 / Rating: 334.25 /
KC
"Why did I want a dog?" I thought to myself as I emptied the pooper scooper.
2007-04-23 12:59:50 / Rating: 287.75 /
Tim
I finished my tea, dropped the bike into gear and headed for the western skyline.
2007-04-23 12:59:06 / Rating: 226.5 /
Drew
I told him not to love me, but I think he already does.
2007-04-23 12:57:59 / Rating: 259.25 /
Scio
My IQ rose yesterday and this world, and life, have taken on new meaning.
2007-04-23 11:25:01 / Rating: 277.5 /
Saxydebater
Upon reflection, my life wasn't nearly as bad as I was.
2007-04-23 11:24:19 / Rating: 245.5 /
Andrew
But then, to the horrified looks of the onlookers, the ducks flew into the pool.
2007-04-23 11:23:21 / Rating: 260 /
R
My mouse finger twitched, wanting to mark every e-mail my boss sent me as "spam."
2007-04-23 11:23:10 / Rating: 306 /
Louisa
Your hand on the small of my back as we left the diner was better than any kiss I've ever had.
2007-04-23 11:22:59 / Rating: 369 /
Steven
Hearing that a woman would choose a hobo over her husband made me truly think that anything is possible.
2007-04-23 11:22:33 / Rating: 264.5 /
billray
I knew I was out of my league when she used 'summer' as a verb.
2007-04-17 17:02:59 / Rating: 445.5 /
how i'd like to be credited
Having everyone on the floor of his dormitory know exactly what we're doing for the next few hours is worth avoiding any more awkward intrusions.
2007-04-16 15:48:27 / Rating: 431.25 /
how i'd like to be credited
When making a film for English class, chocolate pudding works wonderfully as a substitute for poop, as does vegetable soup for vomit.
2007-04-16 15:48:09 / Rating: 290 /
Tomahawk
That quiet summer night in the emergency room was the first time I saw my father cry.
2007-04-16 12:46:45 / Rating: 313.25 /
Sam
I looked at the rusty nail in my foot and thought, "Maybe I shouldn't play 'Blindman's Bluff' with no shoes on."
2007-04-16 12:46:35 / Rating: 276.75 /
Sam
My dismay led to tears when my Underoos didn't transform me into He-man like the commercial said.
2007-04-16 12:46:28 / Rating: 335.75 /
McBeth
Because she never found it we agreed to assume that I had accidentally swallowed her earring that frosty evening during our first embrace at the bus depot.
2007-04-16 12:45:39 / Rating: 319.75 /
Bus Stop
My lemonade smells a little like rotten eggs... and I'm still drinking it.
2007-04-16 12:45:18 / Rating: 219.25 /
truth will prevail
As I lay on the operating room table, I held my breath to watch the heart monitor slow down and then let it go to watch it speed up again.
2007-04-16 12:44:59 / Rating: 614.75 /
mischa
It would have been a perfect night if not for that phone call from his girlfriend.
2007-04-16 12:44:45 / Rating: 154.75 /
Joe Touchole
As I bent over to pick up her pen, the sound of my pants ripping warned me that my life was about to change.
2007-04-16 12:44:16 / Rating: 357.25 /
Kate
I didn't cry when my grandma died so I refuse to let myself cry because of anything else.
2007-04-16 12:43:19 / Rating: 346.25 /
CoreJay
The snow fell of the roof with a heavy thud, just like my poor Uncle Martin did a few winters prior.
2007-04-16 12:43:01 / Rating: 405.75 /
partisangirl16
She tried to kill herself on my thirteenth birthday, and sometimes I wish she succeeded.
2007-04-12 16:01:30 / Rating: 317.5 /
Sam E. Wexler
The refrigerator repairman was the first to learn that I enjoy living in the nude.
2007-04-11 16:16:48 / Rating: 394.75 /
Lizzy
Tears poured down my cheeks when I heard my Dad was going to Iraq.
2007-04-11 10:41:09 / Rating: 350.25 /
An obedient little man
I spent hours driving aimlessly that night, so I could feel free for a change.
2007-04-11 10:40:48 / Rating: 305.5 /
Tom Mar Caribe
Seriously, within the four or five months that I worked at a small accounting firm, a CPA died suddenly of cancer, one of the secretaries had a miscarriage, and the other CPA's husband was found by his mother after having died of auto-erotic asphyxiation.
2007-04-11 10:40:30 / Rating: 347.5 /
Jennifer
I lied and told him, "I believe in God," in order to make him love me.
2007-04-11 10:39:54 / Rating: 347.5 /
Going Like Sixty
Mother marched me right back into the store where I had just shoplifted a small toy.
2007-04-11 10:39:18 / Rating: 292 /
Phil E.
As I was carrying heavy furniture across the room with my father, I realized that physical pain does not bother me when my heart is broken.
2007-04-10 16:10:32 / Rating: 374.75 /
truth will prevail
He was only one pound and six ounces, but somehow I knew my son would live.
2007-04-10 13:07:19 / Rating: 410.25 /
Justin
And when I turned my head to the left, the nauseating noise turned out to be his nose.
2007-04-09 16:57:24 / Rating: 200 /
One Regret
I said "fuck you" to my mother.
2007-04-09 16:49:44 / Rating: 317.5 /
Faulkner
I should have known the second time around that "you don't want to know" preceeds devastatingly bad news about the girl you thought you knew.
2007-04-09 16:49:24 / Rating: 298.5 /
gmon
While I lay on my bed, my guinea pig leaped onto my stomach, opened his mouth very wide and ran into my chin.
2007-04-09 16:48:46 / Rating: 283.5 /
N.M.
My life has come to a focal point: sitting in a law office waiting for the newest one sentence story.
2007-04-09 16:48:14 / Rating: 276.5 /
Megan
Everybody always asks of us if we're dating, and it's the worst feeling in the world when I have to tell them no.
2007-04-09 15:06:51 / Rating: 498 /
M
My worst Valentine's day was probably not the year that my grandmother died, but instead the year my alcoholic roommate threw an anti-Valentine's-day party that ended with several guests in tears after he verbally abused them and stomped on a box of chocolates.
2007-04-05 16:53:44 / Rating: 291.75 /
poohmanchu
While on some level I regret reading her diary, knowing its contents saved me from many years of great unhappiness.
2007-04-05 16:53:12 / Rating: 354.5 /
Freckles
I never thought I could hold a long-term relationship, but here I am, two years later, with butterflies still in my stomach.
2007-04-05 16:52:47 / Rating: 348.75 /
Samantha
We've been chatting for more than 3 years now, yet in the back of my mind I always think of the posibility that he could be an internet pedophile.
2007-04-05 16:52:11 / Rating: 313.75 /
just shut up
She doesn't know it, but the more she talks at work the more ugly she becomes.
2007-04-05 16:51:23 / Rating: 280.5 /
the girl
I hate that feeling you have when you step out of the shower and realize you forgot to grab a towel.
2007-04-05 16:50:40 / Rating: 346 /
PuNkGuRrL
I took pride in knowing that my revenge against that cheating bastard were the scars I left on his back, marking him for life.
2007-04-05 16:50:07 / Rating: 286 /
petalthrow
One night on ecstasy, I stopped a fight between two drag queens in the ladies restroom and then I made them give each other a hug.
2007-04-03 14:42:58 / Rating: 2608 /
Sasha
After watching the movie and realizing how lonely I was, I seriously considered hiring a tutor just to see what it would lead to.
2007-04-03 14:42:10 / Rating: 263.25 /
Serena
I love my cars so much I run them into other objects so I never have to share.
2007-04-03 14:42:02 / Rating: 351 /
E.M.
I didn't tell my mom when I got my period, even though I promised that I would.
2007-04-03 14:41:37 / Rating: 332.75 /
E.M.
My journalism teacher accused me of trying to sabotage the newspaper when I failed to correct a typo, so the next year I tried out robotics.
2007-04-03 14:41:27 / Rating: 287.25 /
Kate O
Unfortunately, it didn't occur to me to wear sunscreen until it was far too late.
2007-04-03 14:41:09 / Rating: 272.5 /
Mels
The first day I saw him face-to-face was the day I lost my wallet and sat in chewing gum.
2007-04-03 14:41:03 / Rating: 262.75 /
Going Like Sixty
By the time I was 22, my brother had died and so had my son.
2007-04-03 14:40:26 / Rating: 334.25 /
E.M.
I am going to prom because I made a duct tape dress, but secretly I wish I had someone to go with.
2007-04-03 09:32:10 / Rating: 287.25 /