my first love

It's been seven years and I can still see the look of horror on his face as he came home from class and saw me in bed with our roommate

tags: regret past love [add]

2012-05-15 15:29:36 / Rating: 12.25 /

C.S. Rodriguez

Your voice crossed the ocean on a telephone wire to ask if I was happy, and I was grateful you couldn't see the lie on my face when I told you that I was.

tags: romance drama sad [add]

2012-05-15 15:28:51 / Rating: 47.75 /

Kaitlyn

Having successfully broken into his house, I fed his dog and did a load of laundry.

tags: humor illegal friendship [add]

2012-05-15 15:27:20 / Rating: 60.5 /

Terrible aim

I never worried about my mental state until I threw a vase at you for wishing me a happy birthday.

tags: mental health disorders bipolar [add]

2012-05-15 15:27:08 / Rating: 53.75 /

neinlives

The happiest moment of my life took place while I was crushed under my 2000lb car, knowing that my boyfriend was completely okay.

tags: wear your seat belt ouch car crash [add]

2012-05-01 08:23:58 / Rating: 132 /

Not a Game

The summer that three of my friends committed suicide, my sister convinced me that the voices in my head were them telling their true stories of being murdered.

tags: suicide summer crazy depression [add]

2012-05-01 08:23:26 / Rating: 66.75 /

doki

If my family is Christian, then why do I remember watching Sesame Street in Yiddish?

tags: humor religion grandparents childhood [add]

2012-04-17 11:45:29 / Rating: 80 /

Dan Wilson

First, a puff of powdered glass in my face, then an explosion, sirens and seven dead people at the end of the road.

tags: explosion crime glass [add]

2012-04-17 11:44:05 / Rating: 65.5 /

Somebody

The irony has never been lost on me that my genetic disease which causes depression also keeps the scars that cover my arms from ever disappearing.

tags: depression disease suicide irony [add]

2012-04-11 09:39:19 / Rating: 78.75 /

shanwich

When I got a free puppy from a one-eyed man at a apple orchard, I had no idea she would grow up to be my service dog.

tags: dog puppy disability service dog love [add]

2012-04-11 09:37:01 / Rating: 139.25 /

Emi

I'm pretty sure "bleeding groin rash" were the last words I ever wanted to hear out of my father's mouth.

tags: too much information god dad humor [add]

2012-04-03 11:41:58 / Rating: 92 /

Ivy

You saved one last little squeak for me as I picked you up for the last time.

tags: pet loss goodbye death [add]

2012-03-30 13:00:39 / Rating: 129.5 /

merinz

When her hair fell out I finally accepted that she had cancer.

tags: illness acceptance [add]

2012-03-30 12:59:53 / Rating: 117 /

Veronica

When I returned home after my first semester away at school, the doorknobs felt wrong.

tags: college doorknobs there's no place like home [add]

2012-03-29 21:23:07 / Rating: 175 /

Meg

My fear of needles is so intense that even under 200 milligrams of Valium, I still sharply pulled away from the surgeon when he went to give me the anesthetic for my wisdom teeth removal.

tags: fear surgery needles [add]

2012-03-29 21:22:57 / Rating: 73.5 /

Noella

On the anniversary of the day we were supposed to get married I called you from Africa to give you my blessing to marry her.

tags: love loss travel [add]

2012-03-15 14:08:37 / Rating: 218.25 /

ksiebs

I will never forget the way your little nose twitched immediately after the vet said, "He's gone," as if it was your last act of defiance.

tags: pet death [add]

2012-03-15 14:07:47 / Rating: 285.75 /

Mimi

The doctor said, "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be back up on the trapeze in no time, it's basically impossible to fracture your heels," right before looking at the X-rays that proved her wrong.

tags: trapeze circus doctor [add]

2012-03-15 14:06:42 / Rating: 100 /

Seriously

My grandmother called me the other day asking if I wanted any weed, because the man across the hall is selling it and she thought it was an excellent deal.

tags: humor family life [add]

2012-03-15 14:06:27 / Rating: 412.25 /

StudentA

"Cutting through human flesh is terribly difficult," our Science Professor told us with a far away look, "like cutting through a tire."

tags: shock professor school awkward silence [add]

2012-03-15 08:17:47 / Rating: 197.5 /

gaileileen

I never knew you called my mother, begging to talk to me so many times, until a random conversation with her some 20 years later.

tags: lost love secrets regret what if [add]

2012-03-01 09:57:39 / Rating: 199 /

Siren

I walked away from you with a smile on my face, not because my heart wasn't breaking, but because it meant my secrets would be safe.

tags: secrets [add]

2012-03-01 09:57:22 / Rating: 168.25 /

JustAThought

We were about an hour into our chanting of the "short" version of the Ngondro when it suddenly occurred to me that I did not really want to learn how to be a Tibetan Buddhist, I wanted to be Awake.

tags: buddhist awake chanting [add]

2012-03-01 09:57:06 / Rating: 153.25 /

Meg

I didn't realize I had told the very chatty customer in my checkout line my last name until he sent me a message on Facebook to ask where I lived.

tags: stalker humor that scary moment when [add]

2012-02-28 15:06:01 / Rating: 165 /

HA!

When I asked him what size his shirt was, and he turned it around so he could check, I realized just how smart he actually was.

tags: kids smart funny [add]

2012-02-21 14:41:52 / Rating: 157 /

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