OnlyInMaine
Honest to Pete, he was weedwacking with a chainsaw and picking his nose, shirtless.
2010-06-25 11:14:52 / Rating: 320 / 
Story archives - June 2010
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Time stood still when the radiologist told me about the tumor, but it's spent the last six months catching up.
2010-06-25 11:13:49 / Rating: 178.75 /
Victoria
Nothing says "you're probably not going to engineering school now" like a teenage pregnancy.
2010-06-25 11:13:02 / Rating: 244.25 /
kitralysis
The same day i hear my therapist say "fuck" for the first time, I learn her cat's name is Sparkles.
2010-06-25 11:11:32 / Rating: 256.75 /
Emmy
Note to self: do not eat raw meat.
2010-06-25 11:10:46 / Rating: 170.75 /
Joy and Sadness
My first child was born on Christmas day, just in time for her great great grandfather to see her on his death bed.
2010-06-25 11:09:10 / Rating: 336 /
Isis
I gave up on trying to compete with my brother the day he actually became a rocket scientist.
2010-06-21 14:05:06 / Rating: 794.75 /
Isis
I was genuinely surprised when I learned that other kids' moms didn't forget to pick them up after school every week.
2010-06-21 14:04:58 / Rating: 298 /
Tima
She paused, looked at the damage she had already done and realized that the only reason for not ending it all right then that came to her mind was, "You have a test on Monday that you've already studied for."
2010-06-21 14:01:49 / Rating: 280.75 /
Barrel of Monkeys
Watching my family's Christmas dinner over webcam from the ICU was somehow worse than not being there at all.
2010-06-21 14:01:14 / Rating: 207.75 /
CrackedPepper86
My chest hurts again, only this time I'm not insured.
2010-06-18 14:43:41 / Rating: 207.5 /
secret keeper
I never expected the fact he was learning the violin to be the secret hiding behind his bedroom door.
2010-06-18 14:42:17 / Rating: 195.25 /
Oliver's Army
Imagine my embarrassment, when losing patience with the deli woman's consistently nodding 'No' to my food orders, when I discovered she had Parkinson's.
2010-06-18 14:41:46 / Rating: 202.5 /
ThisIsIt
I couldn't help but wonder what was wrong with my female body when I saw that the majority of his "Recent Searches" were for gay porn and homosexual networking sites.
2010-06-18 14:39:38 / Rating: 177.75 /
r.i.p. Cinnamon
The day my beloved cat died, my best friend asked me, "Well, did he leave you something in the will?" and my day was a whole lot better.
2010-06-08 12:09:17 / Rating: 494 /
miss milwaukee's nameless
In his pocket he had a condom, a condom wraper, two broken pens, his mother's pink iPod, a lighter, and a broken cigarette, but no keys.
2010-06-08 12:03:05 / Rating: 220.75 /
WHJ
If my brother were not already dead I would kill him for what he has done to our family.
2010-06-08 12:00:43 / Rating: 306 /
Your Diagnosis is...
When I decided to be a writer as a child after falling in love with Sylvia Plath's poetry, I never counted on being in the same mental institution.
2010-06-08 12:00:18 / Rating: 400 /
growl owl
Having discovered One Sentence last summer at a job I quit soon after, I find myself rediscovering it almost a year later, at the same job, about to quit again.
2010-06-08 11:57:34 / Rating: 225 /
not your average 18 year old
I have received a lot of things that most don't get by 18, PTSD, depression, therapy, violent fantasies, and suicidal thoughts, yet I still haven't had a girlfriend.
2010-06-08 11:53:00 / Rating: 274.75 /
Alone
The hardest thing was driving to the funeral alone.
2010-06-08 11:48:44 / Rating: 328.5 /
sadblu
I wept when I found her keys tossed on the coffee table.
2010-06-08 11:46:36 / Rating: 279.25 /
Sappho in Georgia
As I held her hand and told her I loved her, I knew the rest of the school would be out for our blood.
2010-06-08 11:45:29 / Rating: 399.25 /
yuni
The one I love is pregnant now, and I should be horrified and angry at their rapist, but somehow it's nice that we can have a kid despite my vasectomy.
2010-06-08 11:45:13 / Rating: 312.75 /
Jane Doe
When I found out I didn't know his real name four months into dating, I knew it probably wasn't going to work out.
2010-06-08 11:42:38 / Rating: 290.75 /
J
As my mom drove away, after backing into the corner of our fenced in yard with our 15-passenger van, she yelled at us, "FIX THE FENCE!"
2010-06-08 11:42:09 / Rating: 295.25 /