Verilain
I never had as long or decent a conversation with my mother as the one after I'd hit the deer and totaled the car.
2007-10-30 14:23:23 / Rating: 159.75 / 
Story archives - October 2007
girly
I ran down the middle of the icy street chasing the yellow bus from which 24 of my fellow grade 3 students and the driver had completly forgotten about me after ice skating.
2007-10-30 14:21:49 / Rating: 117.5 /
Empire
Though it arrived some days ago, what her dad insisted would be "The Best Dust-Buster Money Can Buy" is still in its box.
2007-10-30 14:21:05 / Rating: 75.75 /
Ken
It went against all my 8-year old instincts that chocolate brown pants don't match fire-truck red shirts, but the animals were the same, dammit.
2007-10-30 14:20:04 / Rating: 105.25 /
Ken
I thought she was just joking, but I really should have gone to the prom with her.
2007-10-30 14:19:37 / Rating: 173.75 /
HarleyH
I sat in meditation for 10 hours a day for eight days before Nothing finally happened.
2007-10-30 14:19:26 / Rating: 113.75 /
harleyh
I fell in love with her on a chat-site, but when she finally showed me her picture, I am ashamed to say, I dumped her immediately.
2007-10-30 14:19:11 / Rating: 162.5 /
Looking Back
Even though it's been ten years and I'm visiting a town 100 miles away from where she lives now, I look at everyone passing by, hoping I'll see her.
2007-10-30 14:18:08 / Rating: 411.5 /
Tek
The first time I saw her put maple syrup on her popcorn I knew I loved her.
2007-10-30 14:17:32 / Rating: 246 /
thekatherine
His face turned a deep shade of red when his friend thought he had informed me of his buddy's hickie, when I was very aware it was from myself.
2007-10-30 14:17:27 / Rating: 161.25 /
Sitting Here
I was never able to kiss her goodbye because all of the little girls would have laughed at us.
2007-10-30 14:16:25 / Rating: 84.25 /
designer blues
I think my mid-life crisis has arrived earlier than expected.
2007-10-30 14:16:16 / Rating: 115.25 /
Four Years Older
The feelings of resentment started when my younger sister got her 10-speed bike at the same time that I did.
2007-10-30 14:15:59 / Rating: 161.5 /
We Say Goodbye
For 6 months I tried to figure out what was different about her before her mother told me about her nose job.
2007-10-29 10:15:15 / Rating: 118 /
The Song In My Head
Our manager didn't know that you had to push a button to make the drive-thru window open again so her face got stuck.
2007-10-29 10:14:57 / Rating: 298.5 /
Blinded by Jealousy
I know I have nothing to worry about, but I still deleted her messages on his myspace.
2007-10-29 10:14:23 / Rating: 291.5 /
Snarkmeister
Sitting there stoned out of my mind on medical-grade marijuana, I thought I'd lost the ability to comprehend the English language, but then I realized that my brother-in-law was jabbering away at me with his dentures out.
2007-10-29 10:13:46 / Rating: 232.25 /
raptor
I deliberately listen to songs I loved freshman year to bring myself down.
2007-10-29 10:12:47 / Rating: 266 /
Nameless
Laying in bad with my girlfriend and child as they slept, I felt deep in my gut that my divorce was not because I became a lesbian at all, but because of post-partum depression.
2007-10-29 10:11:45 / Rating: 123.5 /
thekatherine
No one noticed us hooking up beneath the covers during movie night.
2007-10-29 10:10:32 / Rating: 118 /
normal
I only have to write one more page for this project that's due tomorrow that I've been working on for three days straight, and I have writer's block.
2007-10-29 10:09:41 / Rating: 106.5 /
e
He endlessly enjoyed being the one white gay boy in a gaggle of straight black girls.
2007-10-26 12:56:26 / Rating: 104.25 /
The youngest brother
Dad's been dead for six years and Mom died eight months ago, but my sister who was supposed to "take care of everything" just now got around to paying for their headstone.
2007-10-26 12:56:19 / Rating: 136 /
Peaceful Nightmare
I woke up shaking and realized I hadn't defeated my fear of puppets.
2007-10-26 12:55:40 / Rating: 109.25 /
Kathryn
I stopped eating meat after seeing 'Chicken Run'.
2007-10-26 12:55:13 / Rating: 103.25 /
I don't want to be creditted.
I thought about taking off my purity ring as my hand gripped him tighter, but I was afraid it would make what we were doing real.
2007-10-26 12:54:51 / Rating: 161.25 /
Alexandra
As you were breaking up with me, all I could think about were those mornings when you compared the Pop-Tarts and gave me the one with more frosting.
2007-10-25 14:10:35 / Rating: 1748.5 /
GoldenHarvest
He didn't think I was being serious when I told him that I would send his ex-girlfriend that text message from his phone.
2007-10-25 13:30:02 / Rating: 92.25 /
La Fille Italiano
The fact that I continued running past him for five miles is more symbolic to me than the fact that I started bawling the moment I was in the confines of my home.
2007-10-25 13:29:43 / Rating: 150 /
Rachel
My love for him deepened significantly when he offered to cosign my student loans.
2007-10-25 10:45:30 / Rating: 180.75 /
La Fille Italiano
I think my dog likes it when I don't have a boyfriend because it means he can sleep on my pillows.
2007-10-25 10:44:59 / Rating: 167 /
Ahera
There is a dead frog in my freezer.
2007-10-25 10:44:34 / Rating: 146.75 /
Bear
I don't resent the fact that she jumped on me in the swimming pool, because now I can tell people that the scar on my forehead was put there by the knee of a flying Asian.
2007-10-25 10:35:54 / Rating: 384.25 /
Liza
I love watching people's faces as they realize that when I'm talking about my parents, it's not Mom and Dad but Mom and Deb.
2007-10-25 10:35:43 / Rating: 168 /
Yes Sir, Yes Sir, 5 Bags Full
When I replied to the ferry operator, "No, I don't get seasick," my boyfriend looked at me incredulously, yet later with compassion when I used the barf bag for the fifth time during the two-hour catamaran ride to Heron Island.
2007-10-25 10:21:16 / Rating: 284 /
Pfannkuchen
Sometimes I'm surprised by how a simple thing like pancakes and coffee on a rainy day can temporarily nullify everything negative.
2007-10-25 10:20:50 / Rating: 313.25 /
Fabula
The real trouble began when he set me on the bicycle and said, "You're on a hill, you don't have to do anything."
2007-10-25 10:20:32 / Rating: 329.25 /
TheresNoNeedToWorry
The fact that doctors are sometimes wrong took away my child.
2007-10-23 11:56:36 / Rating: 175.25 /
ac
I used to take my grandmother's ring off my finger before I bent over the toilet after every meal out of fearing my grandmother could see me.
2007-10-23 11:55:57 / Rating: 249.25 /
ac
When I get scared at night, I look out at the fisherman's boat and feel safe knowing I am not alone.
2007-10-23 11:55:45 / Rating: 86.75 /
John
Now that I think about it... the basement fuse panel is a much shorter trip than the ER was.
2007-10-23 11:54:48 / Rating: 149.25 /
Selfish Girl
The day my grandfather was diagnosed as HIV positive was the day my mother found out she was pregnant with me.
2007-10-23 11:54:21 / Rating: 134 /
morehub
My 18th birthday present was dinner at Shoney's and my father coming out of the closet.
2007-10-23 11:53:45 / Rating: 136.5 /
poetrygirl
I thought a boy was inviting me to a dance when he was really just calling to see if I could take his shift at work.
2007-10-23 11:52:34 / Rating: 139.75 /
flossie
As I chased my dog down the street, I cursed the idiot who opened the gate to leave the yard and failed to latch it back.
2007-10-23 11:50:53 / Rating: 107.25 /
hope
You hurt my feelings when you said that tall girls are a turn-off.
2007-10-23 11:49:44 / Rating: 73.75 /
Carlotta
I've had butterflies for a week, can't stop smiling, and dread what will happen when he finds out I'm not Christian.
2007-10-23 11:49:36 / Rating: 137.5 /
Dormouse
Everytime I hang up something from home in my dorm room, I get more homesick.
2007-10-23 11:48:01 / Rating: 114 /
Dormouse
Life's too short to stop eating apples.
2007-10-23 11:47:50 / Rating: 135.5 /
sconzey
When I regained consciousness, I found myself sitting on a toilet, pants round my ankles, and angry men banging on the door.
2007-10-22 14:08:28 / Rating: 133 /
New Mum
"Is that your daughter?" she asked skeptically, referring to the baby drinking milk from my breast.
2007-10-22 14:08:15 / Rating: 257.25 /
Pharmacy Tech
As I handed Mr. Paul his wife's prescription-strength deodorant, I commented on the nice weather we were having, and he responded, "Once while I was in the Pacific, a cloud followed me around for a year, and all the boys would say, 'Here comes ol' McGinty.'"
2007-10-22 14:08:05 / Rating: 150.75 /
Stronger
My husband's deployment turned out to be a good thing because I realized that I'm a lot happier without him, a lot stronger than I realized, and more importantly that I don't deserve to be verbally abused.
2007-10-22 14:07:17 / Rating: 137.25 /
ac
When I stare into my eleven year old Basset Hound's eyes, I could swear she was telling me that everything was going to be okay.
2007-10-22 14:06:54 / Rating: 131.75 /
Jwizzle
It's hard for me to concentrate in my lectures because I get distracted by imagining what it'd be like to make out with random people in my class.
2007-10-22 14:06:43 / Rating: 214 /
Dee
I lost my childhood the day I realized Happy Meals no longer filled me up.
2007-10-22 13:56:54 / Rating: 164.5 /
Rachel
I've been awake for three hours and I've already brushed my teeth four times.
2007-10-22 13:56:48 / Rating: 88 /
Liquified Mint
Instinct told me to log onto his account, where I saw him telling her that he regrets being with me now that he's met her.
2007-10-22 13:56:40 / Rating: 143 /
taper jean girl
My best friend looked out at the ocean, back at the shore and then at me, and asked "What happened to our clothes?"
2007-10-22 13:56:11 / Rating: 184 /
flossie
I still have that scar.
2007-10-22 13:55:48 / Rating: 74 /
Murphy's Lawyer
His whole group was delayed at the Thailand airport for a day because he didn't know what suitcase his mother packed his clothes in.
2007-10-18 14:03:34 / Rating: 117.5 /
justok
I considered myself a Christian until I had to take a religion class at a Jesuit university.
2007-10-18 14:03:17 / Rating: 116.5 /
Confused
He told me that "I mean the world to him," after he admitted that recently his world had one too many planets.
2007-10-18 14:03:07 / Rating: 175.5 /
Kelly
I watched the old VHS tapes of him filming the ocean for most of the night with the sudden realization that he was filming the ocean because it was the last time he would ever see it again.
2007-10-18 14:02:09 / Rating: 197 /
TeaTableMartha
"Kill myself" and "Kill it myself" have very different meanings and the typo earned me 30 hours of group therapy.
2007-10-18 14:01:03 / Rating: 380.75 /
Eureka
Today in my embalming lab we sliced, injected, and sutured a woman who is my thriving grandmother's senior by only six days.
2007-10-18 14:00:50 / Rating: 147.75 /
Amelia Larson
My brain is so uncreative and lazy that I use the names of e-mail spammers for the characters in my short stories.
2007-10-18 14:00:40 / Rating: 151 /
U.
After watching the ant I had trapped inside a water circle for five seconds, I grew extremely pitiful and dried the way so it could walk out.
2007-10-18 14:00:12 / Rating: 75.5 /
Jessica
Expiration dates are there for a reason.
2007-10-16 11:05:40 / Rating: 191 /
Jason Rainey
When asked why I am unable to display more empathy towards her I reply by explaining I have extended so much good will to Claire that I am now dry heaving it.
2007-10-16 11:05:26 / Rating: 52 /
Empire
I am two books into the Bible and I have five pages of questions.
2007-10-16 11:04:37 / Rating: 209.75 /
Empire
"Is it true that you’re just sleeping with girls to get to twenty-seven because that’s your favorite number?" asked number twenty-two.
2007-10-16 11:04:24 / Rating: 219.25 /
arrogant and apathetic
It makes me feel powerful every time I hit "Add to Dictionary" in Microsoft Word.
2007-10-16 11:03:33 / Rating: 250 /
Sara
I hated being Asian because people would always ask me, "What are you?"
2007-10-16 11:03:12 / Rating: 90.5 /
Cee
Feeling bad for the sentences lacking proper props, I "thumbs up" them frequently with the hope that it will make the author's day just that much better.
2007-10-16 11:02:05 / Rating: 284 /
corporate girl
I have experienced a bizarre feeling monday morning when I realized I couldn't wait to get to the office, even though I had a nice weekend with my friends.
2007-10-16 11:01:20 / Rating: 127 /
LP
Midway through my father's funeral, I realized that almost everyone at the service probably thought my best friend--whose hand I was clinging to--was my lesbian lover.
2007-10-15 17:32:11 / Rating: 261.25 /
Arris
I've become so addicted to this web site that I'm reduced to condensing every event of every day to a single sentence including movies, my work day and the birth of my grandchild.
2007-10-15 17:31:37 / Rating: 237.5 /
Hunter
I know that she is selfish and mean, but for some reason I can't shake the fervent wish that she'd believe my side of the story and be my friend again.
2007-10-15 17:31:12 / Rating: 143 /
happy 25th birthday BRYAN, love mom
Insignificant, I am the mother of a 25-year-old son for whom I neither baked a cake nor mailed a birthday card--I did call him--and I want you to know that perhaps your mother feels as guilty as I do about it and that we LOVE YOU--our precious sons--despite our laziness.
2007-10-15 14:39:45 / Rating: 210.5 /
Ollie
It was after a string of C and D grade essays that I realized I'd be a blue collar worker after all.
2007-10-15 14:38:48 / Rating: 135 /
matt
In despair, I witnessed his last moments of life.
2007-10-15 14:38:10 / Rating: 137.75 /
Twinless Twin
I can still feel the way the soles of his feet used to touch mine in our shared crib, even though he's been gone forty-three years.
2007-10-15 14:38:02 / Rating: 306.5 /
scifichick119
After leaving that nightmare of a job, I still hear the phantom cell phone ring I used to carry around 24/7.
2007-10-15 09:40:38 / Rating: 115 /
Bec
The fact that I have four children (three being non-identical triplets) after being told I was infertile, just proves that doctors can get things wrong!
2007-10-15 09:40:03 / Rating: 146.75 /
San Francisco
The walls aren't flame-retardant for up to one hour, so we have to move.
2007-10-15 09:39:20 / Rating: 114.25 /
arrogant and apathetic
I always feel better about myself whenever we give feedback to each other in my English class.
2007-10-15 09:39:01 / Rating: 96.5 /
Raze
When I realized that my three taxonomy courses all had tests in the same week, I wanted to jump off a building.
2007-10-15 09:38:36 / Rating: 94 /
insignificant
There was no cake for my 25th birthday.
2007-10-11 11:18:53 / Rating: 186.5 /
Jenna
My boyfriend got really excited when I ate this morning.
2007-10-11 11:18:18 / Rating: 209.25 /
i dont live in a door
The rape is a lie, but I wish it happened so I had a real reason for hating him.
2007-10-11 11:17:54 / Rating: 151.25 /
Amelia Larson
Odd how when I was released from jail, the slammer seemed more like home than my permanent residence ever had.
2007-10-11 11:16:20 / Rating: 129.5 /
Tams
Bananas taste so much sweeter when mashed before spreading them on toast
2007-10-11 11:16:07 / Rating: 110.75 /
Rachel
For future reference, "just friends" don't feel each other up on the living room floor.
2007-10-11 11:15:57 / Rating: 300.5 /
patty_cakes
"I'm an English major," I told the vacant-eyed cashier, and then "we're speaking it," after she muttered "English, what's that?"
2007-10-11 11:15:41 / Rating: 126 /
eschatologies
My rapist went to jail and was released early for "good behavior.".
2007-10-10 13:34:25 / Rating: 292.25 /
Jesse
I sometimes wonder if tricycling head-first into a metal pole when I was three and not being able to remember it happening are connected.
2007-10-10 13:32:38 / Rating: 156.25 /
2nd best
I was so thankful that the Walmart pharmacy was open late that night.
2007-10-10 13:32:07 / Rating: 97.25 /
Roberto
My cousins and I hate our 4-year-old cousin so much that we're getting her an actual lump of coal for Christmas.
2007-10-10 13:32:00 / Rating: 131.5 /
someone of consequence
My ex-fiance was engaged twice before he met me, and married one of my friends two months after we broke up.
2007-10-10 13:31:44 / Rating: 89.25 /
anonymoose
My dad died six years ago and I'm starting forget what he was like because it hurts too much for me to think about him.
2007-10-10 13:30:44 / Rating: 231.75 /
Anon
As I sat there overwhelmed by Mufasa's death for the umpteenth time, I realized that I hadn't cried at my grandad's funeral.
2007-10-08 17:35:24 / Rating: 234.75 /
Inga
I can only hope that my spaghetti surprise dinner party isn't a complete disaster, but it doesn't help that I don't even have enough cutlery for eight guests.
2007-10-08 17:34:00 / Rating: 113.75 /
Jimjamjellygirl
I find fictional characters to be better than real people because fictional characters are whatever I want them to be.
2007-10-08 17:33:49 / Rating: 136 /
lily
Golf Widow makes me sad because she doesn't realize that every woman is a sister.
2007-10-08 17:31:09 / Rating: 90.25 /
Angie
The upside to my complete lack of substitute teaching jobs after graduation was that I could continue to dye my hair fire-engine red.
2007-10-08 17:31:00 / Rating: 107.25 /
Noel
Hearing that she got engaged over the weekend, I decided it was time for me to stop regretting not kissing her that night six years ago and for her to start.
2007-10-08 17:30:50 / Rating: 170.25 /
Drums
He likes the haircut we gave him even though he can't see the big bald spot we left on the back of his head.
2007-10-08 10:53:37 / Rating: 124.5 /
Golf Widow
That shirt that says "Sisters - Emotional Tech Support" makes me sad because I've always had to outsource.
2007-10-08 10:52:57 / Rating: 142.5 /
Impatient
I'm the sort of person who clicks when he sees a message that says, "Your browser should return to the message board in 2 seconds, or you can click here to go there NOW."
2007-10-08 10:52:28 / Rating: 175 /
Dormouse
It's been eight years this Thanksgiving, and they still sob over his death.
2007-10-08 10:52:05 / Rating: 181 /
Jeremy Firth
Old people living on dog food because it's all they can afford must know about a brand I haven't tried yet.
2007-10-05 10:27:01 / Rating: 127 /
sigh
I opened the drawer expecting to find socks for my freezing cold feet, not kama sutra flash cards and a prescription bottle full of Cialis.
2007-10-05 10:26:45 / Rating: 215.75 /
2 out of 3
In my wildest dreams it never occurred to me that the soundtrack of my love life would be authored by Meatloaf.
2007-10-05 10:26:20 / Rating: 149.75 /