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My good male friend always points out girls that he finds attractive-most of whom I completely disagree with-but then I wonder why he doesn't think I'm pretty.
My good male friend always points out girls that he finds attractive-most of whom I completely disagree with-but then I wonder why he doesn't think I'm pretty.
I counted every single day of our relationship, then one day I realized I had been counting down all along.
When I looked over at him sleeping, half-naked, next to me, my only wish was that he was happy where we were, because I was going no further.
Through the two bouts of cancer striking those very close to me all I think every day, every moment, is about how fat and ugly I am.
As I listened to the audience cheer, I realized how much I wish we were speaking so I could tell you how brilliant you are.
My mother, being enraged, screamed "You son of a bitch", to which I replied, "Yes, I am."
Why is it that when I turn 20, it's only 16 year-olds that hit on me?
As I wiped the dried blood from his hands, I couldn't know that I would never see him again.
A teacher once told me I was a waste of space.
The rush, the hurry, the money was all for what, another bottle of shampoo or a new flavor of ice cream ?
Sometimes after I dropped her off at her house I would come back and the bed would still be warm from us.
A person was reading a one-sentence story and wondering how it would end when suddenly, it did.
I'm out of work and looking for a new job in a new city but secretly I love having nothing to do all day.
When she couldn't stare me in the eye's while saying her vows, I knew then, I loved the wrong one.
The regret came not when I chopped chilli for tea but much later on, when I picked my nose.
My boss is going out of town tomorrow and I think he knows I will skip out on work if given the chance.
During my final exam, I plan to ask my girlfriend/professor to marry me.
I take sip of sweet icy coffee, look at him across the table as the cool autumn wind caresses my hair and for a moment find peace.
Wanting to be cheerful about my new apartment, still I can't avoid disquiet that only pigeons come to the backyard feeder.
There's a lunch table at our school named Alowischuss, and everyone loves him.
It's better to sleep in the morning when the weather is a little hot.
When we found his body, only his lower half stuck out of the ground so it looked like the earth was eating him.
As I sat at my computer, reading all the stories on onesentence.org, it was comforting to realise that there were other people out there who were as bored as me.
She's eleven years old and she eats like a pro wrestler.
I had sex with her boyfriend and I haven't the heart to tell her.
As much as I like being one of the dudes, I would give anything for one of them to tell me I was pretty.
As he kissed me good night, his mouth tasting of coffee, I realized it was the best date I would ever have.
She stared at the window, wondering if she was as transparent.
Not even two months into my first job and the place is shutting down.
I use a name that is not my own when I submit sentences because I know that my mom likes this website too.
She was about ten feet away when she turned quickly to face me and said, "Why can't you come too?"
My uncle would always say, "Good night, Danny, I'll see you in the morning," and the first and only time he didn't say "I'll see you in the morning," was the night he died.
Although he didn't know it, the dark stranger saved me from myself that day, in a way that not even I could understand.
At the age of 12, I found a wallet in a department store and lied to the owner when asked if I'd seen it.
Today, I went to a store and bought a fancy wallet to match an organizer someone in the office said they really liked.
I got home and saw her wearing something slinky at the top of the stairs.
I'm trying to convince my mom to let me go to a co-ed sleepover, but she's like a stone wall.
The one thing I thought I had enough of turned out to be my addiction.
Because I got alcohol poisoning 3 years ago, there is still dried vomit on the bottom of Stephen's trash can.
I'd rather be a tattood person than a person with tattoos.
The scattered ticket stubs and empty bottles still don't hide me from your anger.
I whispered a short silent prayer as I hooked the antenna to my television and was suddenly blessed with immaculate reception.
I got my nipples peirced just so I'd have my own dirty little secret.
I found that I had to stop going to confession because I was telling the priest too many lies.
Maybe I was wrong, but your "I love you" felt more heartfelt when you thought I was addicted.
When I answered the phone to her crying, she didn't even have to tell me that her mother thought the difference between 17 and 21 was a little too large.
For the first time in three years, I preferred sleeping over playing some online game.
After 10 years of listening to him mourn it turned out his first wife wasn't dead, she'd left him.
After that, I vowed I would never again offer to pop a hard-to-reach zit for her.
My nine-year-old Korean taekwondo instructor used only two words of English in his lesson: "Again," and "No."
As I watched the final seconds, all I could think was how much it must suck to be a Duke fan right now.
I was thoroughly disappointed when I realized that Ms. Schiefericke, whom I had thought to be the young, beautiful, blonde woman I saw standing in the hall outside of her precalculus class, was actually a 70-year-old English teacher.
At work today, I learned how to make a chicken out of a cloth towel, though I don't think I can re-create it.
Last night in the car it all seemed so clear, but now with the proverbial pen in my hand I can't seem to find the words.
Two years, a month, and thirteen days after I saw him last, he sent me an email and I broke out in a cold sweat.
Pseudo-angry pretentious bitches post hypocritical myspace bulletins, and I think I'm more sophisticated because I compose single sentences.
I am not a liar, I just enjoy inventing romantic and elaborate alternatives to what actually happens and pretending that these scenarios are true.
It occurred to me later that giving 4 gallons of milk for a Christmas gift might not be such a great idea after all.
I didn't make you a bridesmaid because we're friends, I made you one so that you would have to wear that horrible bridesmaid's dress (and therefore have less of a chance of getting laid at my wedding, whore).
I haven't seen Christine in the 15 years since high school and I'll never tell my wife that I think about her every day.
A psychiatrist myself, I don't know why my identical twin sister, a poet, has spent a lifetime battling schizophrenia or why I escaped the same fate, but I know this: when I look in the mirror I still see her face.
I walked into the men's bathroom on accident, and although the guy at the stall gave me a strange look, he unzipped his pants to do his business anyway.
I tried to sum up my life story into one fantastic sentence, but all I could think of was "shit happens."
I've never seen anyone look as blissed out as the tiny 3 year old whose was the perfect height to stand directly beneath the hand dryer.
I won a plant today because there was a giraffe under my plate.
And shortly after I gave her sentence a "Yay", I realized that I had broken our tie in ratings in her favor.
I don't know if I have ADD, anxiety, depression, or all three, but I'm surely bulimic, probably an alcoholic, and most definitely a humanitarian.
My adopted son saw his mom, dad and sister, along with her unborn child, shot and killed after he had been shot in the head, stabbed, sliced and left to die in his house the perpetrator had set on fire.
It wasn't until two days later that I realized I had not answered the question posed by the essay portion of the final exam.
I became disappointed in mankind when I noticed human feces in the elevator of my building.
When I asked the cat to let us know he was ok, my husband gave me the look, but the next morning he admitted that the cat woke him by walking on his pillow.
There's this guy at my work who goes completely out of his way to be polite and call me by my name, but he thinks it's Martha and I dont have the courage to let him know otherwise.
"We don't even have bras that size here," the saleslady announced to everyone in the store.
It's really hard to find a prom dress when you have no boobs!
Just one thing: never let a drunk man try to open a can of lager with a knife.
The greatest difference between me and my father is that, when playing games, I win and lose with grace, rather than with pride.
As I waited for the train to arrive, tears rolling down my cheeks in the freezing cold, I felt the dreams of a life with the only man I ever loved exploding over and over again like a re-run of some tragedy on TV.
It was so lonely growing up, the kindergarten teacher did not even miss me when I didn't come in after recess.
The outside of our house looked pristine,untouched, not a window broken, but when we tried to unlock the door, we found the key-hole was full of mud.