Widower
My wife died eight days before her 35th birthday which would have been ten days ago.
2007-12-31 11:57:49 / Rating: 170.5 / 
Story archives - December 2007
R.Riley
Seeing a 40 year old crack whore wearing a shirt saying "You can't afford me" and knowing she's probably right made me realize I'd hit rock bottom.
2007-12-31 11:57:16 / Rating: 741.25 /
Theoretical Theory
Because I have an aversion to admitting weakness, I don't have the money to pay for next semester and my parents think it's already paid.
2007-12-31 11:56:50 / Rating: 146.25 /
Lily of the Valley
He wouldn't let me kill myself the night he told me he didn't love me, but he never called after that to see if I was still alive.
2007-12-31 11:54:26 / Rating: 237.25 /
myth
When I thought of how much my friend has done for his girlfriend, I realized how ugly Helen of Troy must have been that there was only a war because of her.
2007-12-31 11:53:57 / Rating: 221 /
ueline
When my Catholic grandmother watches America's Funniest Home Videos she laughs hardest when a man is hit in the groin and that makes me laugh harder.
2007-12-31 11:53:02 / Rating: 168.25 /
Adam
I cheated.
2007-12-31 11:51:56 / Rating: 102 /
Probably Not Okay
My online dating service matched me with my cousin.
2007-12-31 11:50:31 / Rating: 952 /
elise
Spending New Year's Eve alone at my parent's house during my last winter break won't doom me to a lonely, sexless 2008, will it?
2007-12-31 11:50:25 / Rating: 130.75 /
M.
This Christmas I didn't have a Christmas.
2007-12-28 13:53:51 / Rating: 121 /
Ssshhh...
I really wish my new office mate could tell a story in one sentence.
2007-12-28 13:53:17 / Rating: 235.75 /
feelslikerain
As we carried the fishing rods to the dock, it never occurred to me that the punch I had landed on the back of his head had started the end of my longest friendship.
2007-12-28 13:52:49 / Rating: 122.75 /
Theoretical Theory
Every time that my supervisor and I flirt, it seems that it is less of a joke than the time before.
2007-12-28 13:51:44 / Rating: 158.75 /
You know you're a lonely person when you have to bake your own birthday cake.
2007-12-28 13:51:06 / Rating: 261.75 /
Skrapmetal
If you read the shortest verse in the Bible and truly understand it, you don't need to read the rest of them.
2007-12-28 13:50:41 / Rating: 134.5 /
Flirting Illiterate
Until that night I'd never realized talking about video games at a bar constituted as flirting.
2007-12-27 12:26:54 / Rating: 109.5 /
Aj
Christmas just isn't so merry anymore.
2007-12-27 12:26:25 / Rating: 114.25 /
NoSex
She thought I was looking at myself in the mirror, but I was actually flirting with another girl from across the room whose ass and eyes I caught in the reflection.
2007-12-27 12:25:39 / Rating: 121.25 /
staca
I was so entranced by the flashing purple light in front of me that I didn't notice the flashing blue and red ones behind me for over five minutes.
2007-12-27 12:25:01 / Rating: 157 /
R
Standing next to my dad this Christmas, I realized for the first time that he's reached the age at which people begin to get shorter.
2007-12-27 12:24:44 / Rating: 149.5 /
Lucy
I am so glad I got that chance to just hold him and talk to him and breathe in his little doggie smell.
2007-12-27 12:23:41 / Rating: 131 /
M.M.
Grandma hasn't been the same since she flipped her SUV into that ravine.
2007-12-27 12:23:20 / Rating: 116.5 /
Erica
Even while my father was standing in the driveway, telling my family he didn't love my mother and couldn't stay, he was still my hero.
2007-12-27 12:22:39 / Rating: 89.25 /
shaytertot
They didn't have the DVD she wanted at Wal-Mart, so I bought her a big red bong for Christmas instead.
2007-12-27 12:21:24 / Rating: 143 /
bleu
Fred died less than sixteen hours after he attended our concert, after which he had repeatedly told us how well we'd done.
2007-12-19 11:13:15 / Rating: 162 /
forever child
It took me getting pregnant at 18 for my family to finally realize I'm not a child anymore.
2007-12-19 11:12:03 / Rating: 126.25 /
cetacean
The nine year old said he had moved on from his best friend, who was killed by a falling branch a year ago, but as he stared at the spot where he died, I knew he hadn't.
2007-12-19 11:11:39 / Rating: 197.75 /
My dad, always looking for a bargain, picked up an ugly, dying, needles-falling-off tree on Christmas Eve; five hours later, he was dead and the tree was still there.
2007-12-19 11:11:01 / Rating: 203 /
Megan F.
I realized I was smarter than him when I was eight and learned what alcohol was.
2007-12-19 11:10:13 / Rating: 118.25 /
castineirar
He stood me up, so I beat him up.
2007-12-19 11:08:07 / Rating: 129.5 /
Krista
The bane of my becoming a vegetarian was bacon.
2007-12-19 11:08:00 / Rating: 151.75 /
Sheriff
Growing up non-mormon in Utah has pretty much sucked.
2007-12-17 11:04:01 / Rating: 240.75 /
lucky
I heard him say "good luck" as I walked out of the theater, but I didn't understand until I survived the car crash a week later.
2007-12-17 11:03:24 / Rating: 121.5 /
Tonto
I realized after seeing his reaction that "yes" and "no" really are pretty similar in Korean.
2007-12-13 13:12:37 / Rating: 145.75 /
Spankella
At Grandma's house her powder and rouge were in a little drawer right in front of the toilet, so bathroom trips took at least 10 minutes and left me looking like Tammy Faye Bakker.
2007-12-13 13:11:57 / Rating: 228.25 /
Dormouse
As his favorite song played on my mp3 player, I realized why he tried to kill himself.
2007-12-13 13:11:37 / Rating: 141.25 /
Dormouse
My best friend was ecstatic to meet her mother, the woman that walked out on her as a child.
2007-12-13 13:11:31 / Rating: 120.5 /
Diet Lemonade
That last night, Echo broke out of her cage, climbed into bed with me and waited for me to wake up.
2007-12-13 13:11:12 / Rating: 133.25 /
Someone Else Entirely
Without taking her eyes off the magazine my mother casually told me, "Ya know, your first grade teacher was sure you were retarded or something."
2007-12-13 00:21:37 / Rating: 212.5 /
analizabeth
He was too needy right up until the moment he didn't need me anymore.
2007-12-13 00:20:36 / Rating: 197.75 /
Bendango
Thanks to my erasable Bic pen cap and hours spent lingering in after-school daycare all those years, generations of innocent, tenacious schoolmates never found Waldo.
2007-12-13 00:20:03 / Rating: 359.75 /
elenaf
Some of my friends made me so mad today that I think I just might keep the Christmas presents I just wrapped for them.
2007-12-13 00:19:49 / Rating: 113 /
ichthus
Until last year I never realized that people in mental institutions really do color and put jigsaw puzzles together.
2007-12-13 00:18:46 / Rating: 162 /
veronicaromm
They drove frantically as she bled and lost their twins.
2007-12-13 00:17:57 / Rating: 198.75 /
lovefatewrite
This has been the worst birthday ever.
2007-12-13 00:17:43 / Rating: 107.5 /
Reminiscant
We never thought twice about lighting a cigarette outside the hospital as our best friend, who doesn't smoke, was diagnosed with lung cancer.
2007-12-11 11:43:23 / Rating: 176.25 /
yup
They don't serve Thanksgiving dinner in jail.
2007-12-11 11:42:10 / Rating: 143.75 /
Javan
She had never been happier to start her period in her life.
2007-12-11 11:39:10 / Rating: 135.75 /
Loser
It has been 20 years and she STILL owes me the $72 for the hotel room.
2007-12-11 11:33:26 / Rating: 67.5 /
Loser
The beagle came running across the field near I-95 and I, being a dog lover, pet him with my fender while doing 70.
2007-12-11 11:32:59 / Rating: 95.5 /
Hyde
My evening with President Bush was unforgettable because the paper printed my hand shake with the President complete with my open fly.
2007-12-11 11:32:39 / Rating: 101.5 /
katlyn
We would spend hours "painting" her weathered, old fence with water, pretending that we were using the whitest paint around.
2007-12-11 11:31:55 / Rating: 138.5 /
Sandy
She never liked using makeup, but that morning after puking at the toilet for an hour and a half, she had to do something about her pale countenance.
2007-12-11 11:29:49 / Rating: 45.25 /
Ferox
After all the books, classes and hours of study there is such great satisfaction in drawing blood.
2007-12-11 11:29:08 / Rating: 83.25 /
Julianna
It took an argument about subject verb agreement to get me to realize that I am not the slightest bit attracted to my ex-boyfriend anymore.
2007-12-11 11:28:56 / Rating: 133.5 /
Death of Serenity
I realize now that his being a passionate person is no excuse for him trying to choke me to death when he found out i was pregnant.
2007-12-07 15:07:38 / Rating: 276.25 /
-j
When the catheter tore through my mother's heart, it tore through absolutely everything.
2007-12-07 15:05:55 / Rating: 231.5 /
bi-curious straight girl
Eyeing the intriguingly attractive girl in line, it took me a moment to remember that it's almost impossible to find lesbians in birth control clinics.
2007-12-07 15:04:42 / Rating: 206.5 /
i'm still sorry about that
I seriously never thought I was going to crack up in the middle of my first kiss.
2007-12-07 15:03:53 / Rating: 196.75 /
staca
My back tensed in anticipation of pain as I realized that wasn't the shower I just turned off, but the cold water.
2007-12-07 14:58:12 / Rating: 116 /
jroz b.l.
My friends made me listen to metal music, in hopes of making me hardcore.
2007-12-07 14:57:56 / Rating: 100 /
Ang
I white-knuckled two and a half hours of driving on bad roads only to slam into a ditch a block away from my destination.
2007-12-07 14:56:36 / Rating: 77.25 /
busy as a bee...
The day I realized that I had only scheduled three hours for sleep was the day I realized that I was too busy.
2007-12-07 14:56:20 / Rating: 170.75 /
Jamie
Upon seeing my newborn daughter for the the first time, it occurred to me that, at age 36, she was the first person I had ever met who was related to me.
2007-12-06 12:18:33 / Rating: 313.5 /
Carley
The dog managed to be canine-vacuum for the cheerios, granola, and cheese, but decided against the pickle juice that ran down my sweater sleeve onto the floor.
2007-12-06 12:18:09 / Rating: 64 /
LeLou
Each time one of my best girl friends calls with news that they are engaged I automatically play "Another One Bites the Dust," in my head though I feign excitement and tears for them.
2007-12-06 12:17:58 / Rating: 138.25 /
kc
It was the night I was supposed to make you mine, and then the water main exploded.
2007-12-06 12:17:15 / Rating: 114.25 /
New driver
As I drove the car at 25 mph, gripping the wheel and glancing nervously at the snow along the road, I realized that I would have to choose between driving safely and keeping the tailgaters happy.
2007-12-06 12:17:00 / Rating: 101.75 /
Aston
We collectively realized she was gone when we sat down to eat our Thanksgiving dinner and realized that nobody made the gravy this year.
2007-12-06 12:16:52 / Rating: 244.75 /
if only we
To think... it all started with a wayward icecube.
2007-12-04 15:33:26 / Rating: 74 /
mrbobdob
The last sentence of HOUSE BILL 06-1171, may have just made my existence bearable.
2007-12-04 15:31:42 / Rating: 70 /
temporary hartsfield resident
Saving 100 bucks is more important to my father than me not having to spend 6 hours in the Atlanta airport waiting for a connecting flight.
2007-12-04 15:30:08 / Rating: 115.75 /
Jess
My life is on the cusp of requiring more than one sentence.
2007-12-03 15:18:33 / Rating: 224 /
Jessica
The first clue it's been a long day is when you profess your love to the vending machine down the hall.
2007-12-03 15:16:43 / Rating: 158 /
Cornflake Girl
The moment she screamed at me the day after I became engaged to her son was when I realized I was getting much worse than the sterotypical mother-in-law.
2007-12-03 15:16:33 / Rating: 78.75 /
Astral
I will never live in a world as bright and beautiful and alive as I did when I was six.
2007-12-03 15:15:43 / Rating: 248.5 /
jroz
The man that made my students cry explained that it only took loud music and four beers to land him in jail for the last seven years, leaving him unable to attend his father's funeral.
2007-12-03 15:15:30 / Rating: 101.25 /
molly
Asked why they adopted me so late in life, she said, "We wanted to do something nice for someone."
2007-12-03 15:14:40 / Rating: 106 /
I need a fork, or new roommates
I'm eating Ellio's pizza with a spoon right now because my roommates don't know how to wash dishes.
2007-12-03 15:13:56 / Rating: 108.25 /
Olivia
He said I was keeping him from God, and I had no idea I had such capabilities.
2007-12-03 15:13:31 / Rating: 252.25 /
David
I collapsed into a chair when the vet told me he had cancer, but he put his head in my lap to comfort me, sensing only my sadness.
2007-12-03 15:13:19 / Rating: 357.25 /