nerdy in newark
When I was standing on the subway platform telling the particle physics joke to my roommate, I fell in love with the stranger that jumped in with the punchline.
2010-04-30 10:29:37 / Rating: 650 / 
Story archives - April 2010
Kim
My own mother hated my performance.
2010-04-30 10:26:48 / Rating: 196.5 /
cinderella
I started to cry because I had said yes to go to prom with the sweetest guy in school, but I had no money to get a dress.
2010-04-30 10:25:29 / Rating: 297.25 /
bad habit
I was laying in bed with a box of wine and seven dirty glasses by my side when I realized I have been saying, "I'm just having a rough week," for the past fifty-two weeks.
2010-04-26 14:37:38 / Rating: 365 /
Get Dangerous
I broke his ukulele, so he broke my jaw.
2010-04-20 14:36:57 / Rating: 313.75 /
Dave Walls
Discipline is eating your salad, while everyone else around you eats cheesesteaks.
2010-04-20 14:35:13 / Rating: 343.25 /
Kat
Upon seeing the horrified look on my mother's face and watching the nurse clamor into the room as the heart monitor flat lined, my 5-year-old brother brightly responded, "Look what I can do!"
2010-04-19 16:44:42 / Rating: 364 /
Tied up
When four men in ski masks with baseball bats walked in our back door, the first thing I thought was,"I wish I hadn't just told my brother not to come over."
2010-04-19 16:42:54 / Rating: 241 /
Felipe Colmenero
Note to self: if you have to go to the police, your relationship is not ok.
2010-04-19 16:42:32 / Rating: 322.25 /
doesn't matter
My whole family considered my grandfather to be a cold, emotionless bastard, but the day after he died i found his gentle, loving soul contained in a journal that he'd kept hidden on top of the cupboard.
2010-04-19 16:41:28 / Rating: 490 /
ms. Cannon
It was only after I had sent a text where I described Haley as being a slutty version of the anti-christ that I realized I had sent it to her and not her ex-boyfriend.
2010-04-19 14:26:39 / Rating: 193.25 /
viola
My patient's last words before he died, surrounded by family, were: "I feel so loved right now."
2010-04-15 15:24:15 / Rating: 607.25 /
Scarlet
"Look at all the stars!", I said in awe, to which he replied, as he peed in the bushes, "Where?"
2010-04-15 15:23:05 / Rating: 363.25 /
Lightning
While watching my brother-in-law use my childhood Bible to roll a joint, I realized we are probably going to hell.
2010-04-14 16:38:15 / Rating: 591.75 /
Margot
I finally got her out of the house after months of being depressed, and everything was going wonderfully until her brother called to tell her that her cat just got hit by a car.
2010-04-13 14:45:16 / Rating: 192.25 /
Kendra
My famous boyfriend left my unfamous self for a famous musician whose eyebrows are tattooed on.
2010-04-13 14:44:13 / Rating: 191.75 /
Nom de Plume
After the third fire alarm of the week, we stopped evacuating the building, because we figured the cold outside would probably kill us faster than the little infernos in the cafeteria downstairs.
2010-04-13 14:42:32 / Rating: 239.25 /
Fossil!
I hit a born-again Christian with a fossil and was later informed I needed to credit a comedian for that moment in my life.
2010-04-13 14:38:54 / Rating: 271 /
TryingHard
On my second visit, my therapist decided she needed to draw out my family tree to prove to me that coming to therapy was a brave thing to do given the divorce, addiction, lies and avoidance that were rampant in my past.
2010-04-13 14:38:14 / Rating: 200.25 /
Mrs. T
After falling out of the shower and bashing my head on the toilet, I realized that the shower is, in fact, NOT the best place to try and learn the "Running Man" dance.
2010-04-13 14:11:57 / Rating: 470.75 /
loz
I wear my ring on the right hand now.
2010-04-13 14:11:03 / Rating: 206.25 /
BlessingInDisguise
The only reason I don't feel guilty about drinking at age 14 is because I helped save a family from their house burning down while on my way to the store to get beer.
2010-04-13 14:09:43 / Rating: 341 /
ksiebs
Only the bruises faded.
2010-04-09 15:14:18 / Rating: 408.25 /
Zay.
I stopped hating my autistic nephew when I heard him ask his quadriplegic dad to play with him.
2010-04-09 15:10:43 / Rating: 277 /
Hard Head
In a fit of rage I grabbed him by the front of his shirt and yanked him down so I could look him square in the eye, only to accidentally slam our heads together and knock us both out briefly.
2010-04-09 15:09:57 / Rating: 312.5 /
seb
I'll never forget the day when I realized I was born 8 months to the day of my parents wedding date.
2010-04-08 11:42:57 / Rating: 294.5 /
Dmac9000
Sometimes I forget, but today as I watched my daughter going into the school, she stopped and held the door open for the boy behind her who was in a wheelchair, and I remembered that she’s a pretty darn good kid.
2010-04-08 11:42:22 / Rating: 477.75 /
Laughing Lady
My little sister's school project was to film a romantic- comedy movie, and so my first kiss was with a boy I barely knew as a character I wasn't.
2010-04-08 11:41:14 / Rating: 239 /
Unpublished Novelist
I've learned to deal with rejection letters, but it's just not right to open one and get a papercut.
2010-04-07 10:21:25 / Rating: 499 /
OnlyTeaPlease
Finding myself beside the homeless man to whom I had said "No cash, sorry" three times that day, I sat with a book and lemonade in a cash-only cafe.
2010-04-07 10:20:06 / Rating: 181 /
MWS
I never thought that one day I would come home to a fire truck in my drive way and my dad valiantly dousing the trees with a hose after our burn pile shifted to the woods, but it has made an excellent dinner story at every family gathering since.
2010-04-02 11:23:55 / Rating: 202.5 /