Story archives - tag: "brother"

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!"

tags: brother hospital nurse [add]

2010-04-19 16:44:42 / Rating: 243 /

Mmmhhm

My brother is an accomplished pilot, has three college degrees and has traveled all over the world, and he still likes to draw little moustaches on me while I sleep.

tags: big kid brother [add]

2010-03-15 14:39:21 / Rating: 549 /

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.

tags: death brother kids bed snuggling accident car crying [add]

2010-02-24 15:27:56 / Rating: 180.75 /

Wofford

Thanks to my brother, you'll no longer get detention for having blue hair.

tags: humor hair dye breaking the rules changing the rules brother [add]

2010-02-01 11:21:40 / Rating: 261.25 /

cetacean

I knew my brother was going to be a good acrobat when, at five years old, he tripped over a rock mid run and did a 360 degree flip into a nearby fish pond.

tags: childhood humour brother acrobat trip fish pond [add]

2010-01-07 16:04:56 / Rating: 202 /

mageofbabalon

When I asked him how his day had been my father shrugged and said "It was okay," in a non-committal way, because we were still ten minutes from home, and only then would he feel able to tell me my brother had been killed.

tags: sad death brother father [add]

2009-12-30 09:06:58 / Rating: 328.5 /

Ok fine, her name doesn't actually have the comma and exclamation mark in it...

My sister's name backwards is "Ah, Satan!"

tags: humor revenge teasing silly brother sister teenage [add]

2009-11-23 16:40:06 / Rating: 403.75 /

Gullible

When I was little, my older brother had me convinced that the members of Hootie and the Blowfish were named Hootie, And, The, and Blowfish.

tags: humor gullible brother childhood hootie [add]

2009-01-26 09:34:19 / Rating: 283.5 /

Dearie Me

When he was a little kid, my now-gay brother asked my mom when he would turn into a girl.

tags: childhood brother gay [add]

2009-01-23 11:45:22 / Rating: 475.25 /

Sarah

My dog and my little brother practically grew up together, and now that she's gone, he doesn't have a playmate.

tags: pet brother death in the family best damn dog ever [add]

2009-01-07 09:36:33 / Rating: 179 /

Eva

When I asked my son how hitting his brother in the eye could be "an accident," he replied, "I was trying to hit him in the nose."

tags: humor childhood brother son [add]

2008-10-10 16:00:34 / Rating: 840.25 /

Twins

After your twin brother got me pregnant, I was relieved that the baby would still look like you.

tags: twin brother pregnant unfaithful [add]

2008-10-10 11:17:18 / Rating: 517.25 /

choose

The same night my brother died, a church burned down across the city and my sister-in-law disappeared without a word.

tags: death mourning brother sister-in-law [add]

2008-09-10 18:07:41 / Rating: 371.75 /

it's not me, i swear

If my brother steals my phone and texts dirty messages to my friends one more time, I'm gonna break his fingers.

tags: pranks texting brother [add]

2008-08-04 17:13:13 / Rating: 270.5 /

Gege

It's been seven years since she was adopted and I just now realized that my little sister has never called me by my given name, only the Chinese word for "older brother."

tags: sister brother adoption [add]

2008-05-28 15:54:30 / Rating: 382.75 /

pacofarley

I gave Pete time to make a decision but he was already halfway to the stage and I was never more proud to be his brother.

tags: brother [add]

2008-03-07 16:50:16 / Rating: 227.5 /

Philyra

I made Superman cry the day I went to the hospital.

tags: brother self-harm addiction sober getting better best friend family love [add]

2007-07-17 14:46:03 / Rating: 398 /

Holly

Five years and an engagement ring later, my brother forgave his ex-best-friend for hitting on his little sister.

tags: sister engaged getting married brother siblings family forgiveness friends [add]

2007-05-23 13:17:46 / Rating: 530.75 /

Lia

He thought he was invincible.

tags: car wreck brother survival [add]

2006-10-30 00:21:08 / Rating: 807 /

Eureka

My brother bet me $5 that you and I would grow old together, and two days later when you broke up with me I bought five boxes of the most bittersweet twinkies I have ever eaten in my life.

tags: bet brother twinkie love loss breakup depression [add]

2006-10-22 01:34:27 / Rating: 565 /

Rob C.

One time my older brother put his coat in the oven to try to dry it off, but it kinda caught on fire.

tags: oops fire brother [add]

2006-06-27 17:32:03 / Rating: 485 /