Story archives - tag: "shame"

secret

When I was 12, my family had to sleep in a family friend's garage and I didn't feel ashamed until her daughter told everyone at school.

tags: shame homelessness end of innocence [add]

2008-07-07 14:39:15 / Rating: 132.5 /

Blackfeather

When the doorbell rang at four o'clock in the morning, I knew the cop had seen my license plate.

tags: police mistake shame late night oops regret stupid [add]

2008-05-07 11:16:24 / Rating: 153.25 /

Kindergarden attempts

At six-years-old my friends passed around a discarded, lit cigarette smoking it perfectly while I couldn't take a drag properly no matter how hard I tried.

tags: childhood cigarettes friends failure shame struggle sadness [add]

2008-05-01 14:28:28 / Rating: 131.5 /

Ashamed

My atheist neighbor has helped more people in the past year than my entire congregation has in the past ten.

tags: religion shame hypocrite ashamed atheist atheism [add]

2008-03-25 10:51:34 / Rating: 1199 /

scum

I was her babysitter, her superhero, her mentor, her protector, her beloved father-figure all her life up to the day I molested her.

tags: guilt shame betrayal regret self-hate [add]

2007-07-16 15:27:26 / Rating: 191 /

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.

tags: childhood shame sad painful [add]

2006-09-29 11:13:36 / Rating: 183.75 /