Contaminated
The day I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder was the day I chased my best friend down the street with a butterfly knife.
2010-03-02 13:30:58 / Rating: 91 / 
Story archives - tag: "sad"
lifescience
I came across an old lady laying on the side of the road in the middle of the night and when I approached her she looked up and asked, "Did I win the race?".
2010-02-17 16:03:50 / Rating: 187 /
Jenna
I rapidly counted and recounted the change in my pocket as I waited for the procession.
2010-01-04 10:42:48 / Rating: 64.75 /
mageofbabalon
When I asked him how his day had been my father shrugged and said "It was okay," in a non-committal way, because we were still ten minutes from home, and only then would he feel able to tell me my brother had been killed.
2009-12-30 09:06:58 / Rating: 242 /
deprived
As a child, my parents convinced me that when the ice cream truck played its song, it meant the ice cream was finished.
2009-11-06 14:25:40 / Rating: 228.5 /
Sad
I wonder if it would be worse to tell my daughter she caught me snorting pain pills or let her keep believing it was coke.
2009-10-27 15:23:36 / Rating: 123.25 /
Cat obsessed
My vacation is ruined knowing that 1,800 miles away my cat pooped on the living-room floor.
2009-10-26 16:17:01 / Rating: 101.5 /
abused
Five years later, I still have a scar of my husband's entire dental impression from when he bit my abdomen.
2009-06-23 09:56:06 / Rating: 123.25 /
vermilion
The memorials were covered in hundreds of flowers and the bouquet we had bought from Albertson's blended in with the rest of the blossoms.
2009-05-08 07:59:16 / Rating: 134 /
princessobama
I knew I had to find a steady boyfriend when the cat ate my birth control pill.
2009-03-17 12:13:21 / Rating: 171 /
James
When I was 14 I saw a gang of younger kids killing a wild rodent, so I went behind the apartment building and cried.
2009-03-05 11:40:23 / Rating: 248 /
hartford
My oldest sister once curiously asked my Grandma Helen why her phone number was written on her arm.
2009-02-17 13:44:48 / Rating: 781.5 /
Brady
My parents put my dog down the night of my prom.
2009-02-02 11:50:32 / Rating: 169 /
Sleepless in Seattle
I can't believe that you smiling at me was the highlight of a day where I got an A on a test, found twenty bucks, and won a debate.
2009-01-15 12:35:16 / Rating: 854.25 /
My only regret.
One of my best friends in high school killed himself after the only girl he ever asked out turned him down at the risk of being less popular, which is a shame because he would have been the best first boyfriend I ever had.
2009-01-05 08:42:49 / Rating: 924.25 /
I'm sorry, frog
25 years later, I still feel guilty for shooting that leopard frog in the head with my BB gun.
2008-10-24 13:21:40 / Rating: 284 /
Mello
The day I was ready to tell him "Yes" was the day he came in holding my best friend's hand.
2008-10-15 15:11:19 / Rating: 298.25 /
AD's ex
After months of separation and pain, my wife, who was a high school teacher in North Carolina, invited me back home only to have a high school student in her bed when I arrived.
2008-10-08 14:33:25 / Rating: 212.5 /
Marley
Fortunately, my landlord didn't ask how my job is going this month.
2008-09-03 13:56:09 / Rating: 160.75 /
A
I realized how sad my life is when I found myself reading a graduate mathematics reference text for pleasure on a Friday night.
2008-09-02 09:38:20 / Rating: 263.75 /
Erin
It's my sixteenth birthday and I've only gotten happy birthdays from a radio DJ and a website.
2008-08-19 14:43:38 / Rating: 380.25 /
Not your daughter
"Just lock your door at night" is not a reasonable thing to say to your 12-year-old daughter when she tells you her stepfather is molesting her.
2008-08-18 14:57:45 / Rating: 673 /
Trishy
The happiest moment of my life was when I won a pack of Sprite on the radio.
2008-07-14 12:42:09 / Rating: 224.75 /
Travis B
My spare tire was also flat.
2008-06-12 14:31:49 / Rating: 515.5 /
zenny
A week after his death I got an email from my mother in law informing me that my father had hung himself in the basement of the house I grew up in, and she ended the letter with "I didn't call because I don't know how you would react to such terrible news."
2008-06-06 17:10:02 / Rating: 264.75 /
Rachel
After three years of Alzheimer's ravaging his mind, he looked at me, his 18 year old granddaughter, and asked, "Are you mad at me mommy?"
2008-06-04 10:07:17 / Rating: 542.75 /
ashamed
Having no guilt over terminating a pregnancy is making me feel guilty.
2008-05-30 10:10:37 / Rating: 329.25 /
myfairmaybe
She often cries while watching him sleep, hands clasped on his chest, reminding her again of his sister's tiny corpse.
2008-05-13 12:00:09 / Rating: 265.25 /
Dusty
My parents believed that black and white people were equal until I started dating a black man.
2008-04-23 14:54:12 / Rating: 428.5 /
Oh Me
While he is in Alaska living an adventure, I am here, missing my father.
2008-04-22 12:14:09 / Rating: 229 /
Joy
I hate the jerk who left the Post-It note on my door saying: "Your boyfriend called, he wants to break-up."
2008-04-18 10:20:05 / Rating: 335.5 /
notabirthdayfan
This year, on my birthday, I will eat alone at the restaurant where I spent my happiest birthday which eventually turned into the birthday which made me despise birthdays.
2008-04-07 14:31:29 / Rating: 311 /
Iguess
Alone in a cheap hotel room at 2am, I realized I'd never felt more at home.
2008-04-07 14:31:00 / Rating: 267.75 /
Hipster
If you've never seen your friend's baby girl wave goodbye to her daddy as his casket leaves the funeral, I want to be you.
2008-04-02 13:49:34 / Rating: 650.5 /
Family Girl
Over the last month, the cold reality of life has struck since one uncle died, another uncle had a stroke, my mother found out she has breast cancer and my grandmother is on her way to an assisted living facility.
2008-02-13 13:09:19 / Rating: 300 /
Hours away from people that love me
With all the tags for "college" I finally feel connected to my age group.
2008-02-06 13:37:15 / Rating: 275.25 /
Trouble
She said that the scrunchie that I took out of my work bag was not hers.
2008-02-06 13:32:55 / Rating: 264.25 /
A.L.D.
My father died as I asked my grandmother why she was crying.
2007-11-24 18:30:06 / Rating: 334.5 /
matt
In despair, I witnessed his last moments of life.
2007-10-15 14:38:10 / Rating: 277.25 /
Loneliest of men
What if, for me, socializing has sincerely become a chore, a burden to have to deal with during times when I can't enjoy solitude?
2007-09-28 17:07:43 / Rating: 366 /
Juju
She was too drunk to notice how drunk I was.
2007-09-27 12:28:59 / Rating: 332 /
Rob
It's sad that my mother's cancer-filled dog seemed more frisky and alert on the day before he was put to sleep than he had been in years.
2007-09-11 12:56:24 / Rating: 377.5 /
Juju
The cardboard paper camel I made my stepfather for his birthday is still hanging on the wall, left and abandoned, like us.
2007-09-10 12:10:19 / Rating: 319.5 /
boredasmustard
My face looks exactly like my mother's did, before a head-on collision with a drunk driver led to her complete facial reconstructive surgery.
2007-08-28 23:09:46 / Rating: 300.75 /
j
As I was a suicidal, gay teen, I sometimes wish I'd get HIV so I'd be spared having to think of a future I'm not sure I ever wanted.
2007-08-28 23:08:11 / Rating: 297 /
Sorry
I was in the frozen food section when his favorite song came on the radio and I had to sit down to cry.
2007-07-11 13:02:21 / Rating: 417 /
Emme Love
The cold night precursed a cold week, with no sunshine in the forecast.
2007-07-10 14:23:42 / Rating: 279.25 /
Victoria =(
When I found out he got in, I gave him a congratulatory hug that made me feel the farthest I've ever been to him.
2007-06-21 09:58:36 / Rating: 349.25 /
Squeek
As the belt loop on my pants broke at the rehearsal for my brother's wedding, my mother told me I was fat when I only weigh 110 pounds.
2007-05-30 13:36:46 / Rating: 333.75 /
Bursting
I was 16 when I learned my parents weren't immortal.
2007-02-12 12:36:47 / Rating: 373 /
Michal
The work week seems to be a repeating blip that echoes a nasty scratch on the record of life.
2007-02-12 12:32:42 / Rating: 449.25 /
me
I moved away to college thinking that I wouldn't miss my family, but I really wish I could see them right now.
2007-02-07 09:56:07 / Rating: 358.75 /
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: 298.25 /
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: 390.25 /
Gareth
I never knew what I wanted from life, except to be a better father to my children (if I have any) than mine was to me.
2006-12-22 00:33:17 / Rating: 330.75 /
txsdave
After our usual back fence bull session, complaining about shady politicians and the sad state of the world, my neighbor walked into his house picked up a shotgun and blew his head off.
2006-11-09 09:58:30 / Rating: 373 /
Kitt
One of the worst feelings in the world is when you realize you weren't really paranoid after all.
2006-10-24 10:24:29 / Rating: 559.75 /
elijah
Hell would be better.
2006-10-16 12:54:14 / Rating: 258.25 /
Ory'hara
My lover told me that she was drunk and wouldn't talk to me because of that, so I went to get drunk myself.
2006-10-16 12:53:56 / Rating: 267.5 /
Don't call me Shirley
I was more than half asleep when I heard my father speaking, but I didn't understand he was telling me she was dead.
2006-10-03 10:50:02 / Rating: 394.5 /
Crystal
Mom, I never told you what they did to me, because I was ashamed and I was afraid you would think it was my fault.
2006-09-29 11:13:36 / Rating: 355.75 /
Rob Sanderson
I sat there that night and realized that all my life I’ve been trying to eliminate the things that cause me to get depressed, instead of the depression itself.
2006-09-14 07:14:25 / Rating: 552.75 /