WFZeman
Two days later, I went back to the high school I'd sworn to leave forever.
2010-02-25 08:07:38 / Rating: 384.75 / 
Story archives - February 2010
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I didn't understand that he asked for six sugars in his coffee because it helped him keep feeling high.
2010-02-25 08:07:13 / Rating: 225.25 /
Alice Fitzhugh
If it weren't for the accident last night, I wouldn't have the possibility of a photography job for a musician.
2010-02-25 08:06:06 / Rating: 272.75 /
LBriers
My dad's last note to me was "Always hear the music in your life."
2010-02-25 08:04:29 / Rating: 668 /
She was Annabell
I walked in to my daughters bedroom to wake her up from her nap and saw that she was blue.
2010-02-25 08:04:01 / Rating: 391 /
brigitte
My grandma was waiting for my dad to take her to the hairdresser, but when he didn't show she went up to his room only to find empty wine bottles, pills, and him dead on the couch.
2010-02-25 08:03:18 / Rating: 429.75 /
Colin Perini
For 30 years I was an artist and then one day the economy slumped, and now I am a web designer.
2010-02-25 08:02:45 / Rating: 256.75 /
Farewell Kesiah
As I received the news about her body giving out, her brain unravelling due to dementia, and her heart beating strong, all I could think about was how cute she looked driving her Fiesta at the age of 86.
2010-02-24 15:29:05 / Rating: 280.25 /
snakey
I should have bought a lottery ticket the day an apartment-complex neighbor with about a 30% overlap in movie tastes got the same movie we did, on the same day.
2010-02-24 15:28:24 / Rating: 224 /
April
I was laying in bed snuggling with my 6 month old son when my brother called crying hysterically that his wife had just died in a car accident, leaving him a widow with 5 little kids to raise on his own.
2010-02-24 15:27:56 / Rating: 468 /
Jay
I stole one of my roommates brownies on my way out the door and arrived at the job interview too stoned to talk.
2010-02-23 09:57:07 / Rating: 951.75 /
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: 445.5 /
A blonde moment
Attempting to blow out a candle with Listerine in my mouth was a bad idea.
2010-02-17 16:01:48 / Rating: 424.25 /
Leah Derby
Hungover and with a cup of coffee shakily held aloft, I did not see the deer grazing on the front lawn when I opened the door for my frantic dog.
2010-02-17 16:01:15 / Rating: 244.75 /
Amy
When I wrote the thank you cards for my wedding I also had to include thank yous for the condolences I received about my mothers passing.
2010-02-17 15:59:08 / Rating: 208 /
Annie
Waking up four hours later in the hospital after I had overdosed on Tylenol, I was so happy to be alive that I thought I was cured.
2010-02-17 15:58:37 / Rating: 372.5 /
sister
My brother and I talk about everything, except the time our father spent in a mental hospital.
2010-02-16 13:28:31 / Rating: 349.75 /
Billy
The consequences of my wife opening a bulging can of dog food will remain us forever.
2010-02-16 13:27:18 / Rating: 271.25 /
Dmac9000
With a name like Marzena, how could she be anything but high maintenance?
2010-02-12 13:08:38 / Rating: 219.75 /
Not the Only One
He refuses to kiss my lips when another person is in my body.
2010-02-12 13:07:29 / Rating: 516 /
juju
When the college boy holding a joint knocked on my door and asked a total stranger to kiss him because he had been dared, did he really have the right to have his feelings hurt when I slammed the door?
2010-02-12 13:06:17 / Rating: 182 /
TS
After he died, I thought my grandmother would still love my sisters and me.
2010-02-09 12:29:20 / Rating: 332 /
Minty fresh.
I experienced the concequences of failing to label the tupparware tubs containing both toothpaste and sunblock.
2010-02-09 12:26:45 / Rating: 329.25 /
Leon Lion
I woke up cramped in the fetal position on my couch, and turned to see my dog and two cats spread out leisurely on my bed.
2010-02-09 12:25:23 / Rating: 466 /
When English teachers go bad
I used to demand a new world order in flawless iambic pentameter, but now I'd settle for one in sixteen-syllable haiku.
2010-02-09 12:24:36 / Rating: 422.75 /
Yes I AM the Johnstone!
I really do use this in my Creative Writing class so that my students can be published, even though none of mine ever are.
2010-02-09 12:24:09 / Rating: 195 /
Naked Cookie Monster
I just wanted a cookie from the top shelf that morning in 1979, but ended up with a dislocated knee, a broken arm and a rusty nail through my penis.
2010-02-09 12:23:55 / Rating: 627 /
David
My ex-wife would freeze up every time she told the story of coming home from church as a child and finding all the dolls she had left lined up in tiny chairs replaced by the dead squirrels that her father had killed that morning.
2010-02-05 10:20:12 / Rating: 437 /
TPK
I wonder what their lives are like now, whether they're happy, and if they ever let themselves remember the night in 1981 when they were drunk and ran that Volkswagen van off the road playing "chicken."
2010-02-02 12:50:43 / Rating: 516.75 /
Iceberg
At my mother's funeral, my grandparents argued over the type of lettuce they had eaten the night before and I interrupted them by admitting I was pregnant.
2010-02-02 12:49:54 / Rating: 415.25 /
Wofford
Thanks to my brother, you'll no longer get detention for having blue hair.
2010-02-01 11:21:40 / Rating: 490.75 /
One in many
The poor janitor was only trying to do his job, and it was never supposed to include being threatened to be ripped limb from limb by grieving teenagers.
2010-02-01 11:19:46 / Rating: 416.25 /
Curry Cretin
When my Nepali housemate walked in on me heating up curry from a tin, I seriously considered moving out.
2010-02-01 11:17:45 / Rating: 228 /
TastesLikeToes
That was when I found out that if a bride is having trouble fitting into her wedding dress, you shouldn't casually mention that you've dropped a pants size in the last month without trying.
2010-02-01 11:17:33 / Rating: 262.75 /
Andy KO King
The only bone I've ever broken is someone else's nose.
2010-02-01 11:17:03 / Rating: 356.5 /
Miss Catherine
The doctor said "Your white blood cells are abnormal."
2010-02-01 11:16:45 / Rating: 234.75 /
Astrid
I was verbally and sexually abused, but my ex-boyfriend gave me the lasting issues.
2010-02-01 11:15:43 / Rating: 265.5 /