Nancy
Five years and five phones later, I still add your number every time.
2012-07-23 15:05:01 / Rating: 830.25 / 
Story archives - tag: "grief"
Joaniede
I went to my appointment expecting to find out if it was a boy or girl, but instead I discovered how very difficult it is to say goodbye.
2012-01-17 20:45:33 / Rating: 362.75 /
Silly Little Girls
There's nothing quite like the moment a drug deal goes bad, and you see someone lose their head.
2011-12-09 14:32:43 / Rating: 202.25 /
regret
When I almost killed myself, you licked the tears from my face and when you died, I held your cold paw and tried not to cry.
2011-11-02 10:06:07 / Rating: 636.75 /
Laura Briggs
Shortly after having chemotherapy to end the ectopic pregnancy, the scan revealed that the baby was in fact inside the womb with a beating heart.
2011-10-27 13:24:33 / Rating: 253.75 /
Lindsey
A few miles outside of Manhattan, my father carried a collapsible lawn chair to the lower level of Macys at the Queens Center Mall.
2011-10-13 23:04:05 / Rating: 205.25 /
His old, worn-out pair of Wellington boots haven't moved from their spot on the back porch in 10 years.
2011-04-12 13:23:37 / Rating: 510 /
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: 423.25 /
welch's grapes
I couldn't stop thinking about how that picture board had been made for a graduation party, not a funeral.
2010-05-12 10:34:43 / Rating: 538 /
LizB
Watching my mother lean over my father's coffin to kiss him and tell him goodbye was the most painful moment of my entire life.
2010-03-15 14:36:26 / Rating: 594 /
Claire
We lost the baby a week after we finished the nursery.
2009-03-25 11:24:32 / Rating: 550 /
Allie
I will never forgive them for letting me find out my aunt had committed suicide on the five o'clock news.
2009-02-12 11:25:07 / Rating: 557.25 /
Cassandra
After crying in a church parking lot for 20 minutes about the news of my best friend's death, someone from the church asked me to leave.
2009-01-29 16:15:36 / Rating: 979.5 /
LaDeeDa
Shortly after a palliative care nurse suggested Preparation H as a treatment for my weeping induced under-eye bags, my mother, who was dying of cancer, opened her eyes and left me with these parting words of wisdom to sustain me after she died: "Whatever you do, Petunia, do NOT put ass cream on your face."
2009-01-23 14:22:40 / Rating: 3255.25 /
Emerentiana
Since he died, I haven't been able to enjoy hugs at all.
2008-11-03 17:35:33 / Rating: 658.5 /
fancy spatula
I've slept with a fan on every night for the past 13 years, 7 months, and 14 days.
2008-10-27 15:32:21 / Rating: 559.75 /
me
It's been a month today since he died and this website was my last port of call for somewhere he might have hidden a message to me.
2008-10-15 15:17:01 / Rating: 598.25 /
FormalWare
She was heavier dead than alive.
2008-06-09 12:20:29 / Rating: 588.5 /
OregonGirl75
I braced myself, stoic and still as stone, as they wheeled your body into the room, and I didn't break down until I realized your long hair was still wet from the last shower you took.
2008-05-28 15:54:48 / Rating: 919.25 /
CRACK
When they left me alone with your body, my fist came down so hard I heard your ribs crack.
2008-04-23 14:55:16 / Rating: 600.25 /
maggie
I wrote "thank you" notes to everyone who had attended the funeral as if it had been a baby shower.
2008-04-07 14:32:41 / Rating: 499 /
Optimistic Facade
I couldn't tear my eyes away from the chair, still warm, as they carted your body away.
2008-02-20 12:51:10 / Rating: 589.75 /
Wendy
I slammed my body into the hood of my truck on the night you died and the dent is still there.
2008-02-13 13:18:54 / Rating: 807 /
katlyn
I felt her grip loosen on my hand as she slipped away.
2007-07-11 12:59:33 / Rating: 638.75 /
Tori
One of the worst feelings comes along with seeing your dog dying in the middle of the road after you accidently ran over her.
2007-06-26 16:55:05 / Rating: 737.5 /
D
Five minutes later, she realized that she hadn't thought about him for five minutes.
2007-06-08 18:01:25 / Rating: 706.25 /
Lesley
As I wiped the dried blood from his hands, I couldn't know that I would never see him again.
2007-03-28 17:06:22 / Rating: 626.5 /