Story archives - tag: "memory"

Anagram

It was only appropriate that the one day that I, the most gullible student in the fourth grade at the time, did not believe a ridiculous story that someone told me was that day in September when the world changed forever.

tags: irony childhood 9/11 memory disbelief [add]

2008-06-02 13:36:25 / Rating: 74 /

myfairmaybe

She often cries while watching him sleep, hands clasped on his chest, reminding her again of his sister's tiny corpse.

tags: child death memory sad [add]

2008-05-13 12:00:09 / Rating: 94.5 /

Cupcake

I remember distinctly the last time my daddy told me he was proud of me, because I think that's the last time I'm ever going to hear it.

tags: father pride memory [add]

2008-04-28 12:16:49 / Rating: 115.5 /

tofargone

I am going to look at this in a week when its posted and not realize I wrote it.

tags: wasted drunk memory [add]

2008-02-25 21:27:40 / Rating: 125.25 /

Jaruso

Sitting at my desk I think of the days before the minivan and can almost smell the beer drenched microphone.

tags: memory humor longing business [add]

2008-02-25 21:26:46 / Rating: 114.25 /

Astral

I will never live in a world as bright and beautiful and alive as I did when I was six.

tags: childhood loss memory sadness growing up [add]

2007-12-03 15:15:43 / Rating: 219.25 /

CheeseCorn

I'm committed to making lemonade, but I often wish I could pinpoint the moment when I settled for lemons.

tags: regret midlife relaitonships memory [add]

2007-10-02 10:28:21 / Rating: 167.5 /

cha

It's been so long that I don't even look down your street anymore.

tags: moving on memory [add]

2007-05-31 14:54:55 / Rating: 545.75 /

CoreJay

The snow fell of the roof with a heavy thud, just like my poor Uncle Martin did a few winters prior.

tags: childhood memory snow family ouch falling [add]

2007-04-16 12:43:01 / Rating: 188.25 /

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.

tags: accident recognition help stranger memory crash aid [add]

2006-12-21 14:44:37 / Rating: 148 /

she has no name

When I was 2 years old, I nearly burst into tears because Minnie Mouse's house was plastic.

tags: childhood memory youth disney [add]

2006-11-28 09:59:39 / Rating: 136.5 /

bah

Sometimes I forget names, but that day my failing memory made me see him as a complete stranger, and he never forgave me.

tags: friendship memory [add]

2006-11-27 14:36:08 / Rating: 121.75 /

cz

She embraced me with the warmth of her skin, the wine on her breath and the smile on her lips and I felt absolutely nothing.

tags: relationship humor tragedy nothing beginning of the end memory regret [add]

2006-10-05 10:56:08 / Rating: 188.5 /

Anonymous

I don't know if I would have stayed with him all night comforting him while he puked his guts out into the toilet if I'd known that he wouldn't remember it the next morning.

tags: drunk vomit toilet memory [add]

2006-08-29 07:39:42 / Rating: 164 /