a beautiful disaster
When I logged on to Facebook, I wasn't expecting to find my mother's suicide note.
2012-01-30 09:38:26 / Rating: 48.75 / 
Story archives - tag: "loss"
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: 75 /
Samantha
We visited him in the hospital over 100 times during the last 14 years, but the one time we didn't go was the one time it counted.
2011-11-11 11:33:34 / Rating: 150.75 /
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: 392.5 /
Beth
I spoon-fed the food that filled my Aunt's lungs and killed her.
2011-10-27 13:22:14 / Rating: 116.5 /
Rob
Although cancer took my little brother ten years ago when he was a sophomore in college, his first (and only) boyfriend and I still refer to one another as "brothers-in-law."
2011-04-12 13:24:39 / Rating: 737 /
Self-loathing Narcassic
Your brains will never wash off our daughter's bedroom walls.
2010-10-04 15:14:43 / Rating: 297.5 /
KP
I learned that night that sometimes when a person threatens to commit suicide, they aren't bluffing.
2010-08-19 14:57:49 / Rating: 409.25 /
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: 415 /
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 /
true love
After 10 years of counseling, a full time career, and the support of 4 children, my dad still cries every night at the loss of Mom.
2010-03-19 09:53:26 / Rating: 925.75 /
ursula's blues
The night before my dad died, I rolled my eyes and gave an exasperated sigh when he asked me to go to the kitchen and get him a glass of water, but I can't remember if I told him that I loved him.
2010-03-16 12:54:27 / Rating: 442.75 /
MissingMum
Diagnosed in October, terminal in November, gone by December.
2010-03-04 15:57:24 / Rating: 423.25 /
MissK
As I spoon-fed my Grandfather what would be his last meal, I already knew it'd be a moment I would never forget, despite him being so drugged that he thought I was my mother.
2009-12-04 08:52:01 / Rating: 359.5 /
Algie
It was only when she recoiled with horror in her eyes that I realized how completely I had misread her signals.
2009-08-18 09:59:08 / Rating: 303 /
W Kevin C
I lost five years of my life for kindly asking someone to put some paper in a bag.
2009-05-04 11:35:49 / Rating: 290 /
sneha
The positive test confirmed that I was a mother, but bleeding at 5 weeks made sure I wouldnt hear being called "Mama" this time around.
2009-04-30 09:23:07 / Rating: 355.75 /
I wonder what else I don't know
When I told my dad I'd misplaced my class ring, he told me his was lost 30 years ago when "a girl died in a car accident."
2009-04-07 14:04:34 / Rating: 427.75 /
Jerij
Had I realized that he would be dead within 24 hours, I would have asked what he meant after he said, "No matter what, I did my best".
2009-03-27 14:14:12 / Rating: 400.5 /
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: 437.5 /
Emerentiana
Since he died, I haven't been able to enjoy hugs at all.
2008-11-03 17:35:33 / Rating: 521.75 /
Laura
I never realized that I had so many memories in this house until Hurricane Ike swept it away.
2008-09-21 14:22:42 / Rating: 369.5 /
shorty
You made your sister an only child after the "Half of My Heart is in Iraq" sticker on your truck became untrue.
2008-07-30 14:33:50 / Rating: 481.25 /
futura yellow
She hung herself with the purse I gave her for Christmas.
2008-04-28 12:11:33 / Rating: 637 /
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: 493 /
Hipster
If you've never seen your friend's baby girl wave goodbye to her daddy as his casket leaves the funeral, I want to be you.
2008-04-02 13:49:34 / Rating: 894.75 /
Naive
My father died when I was six and the day after, I wrote in my diary that I was feeling better.
2008-02-20 12:52:10 / Rating: 554.25 /
her firstborn
It was better to have 23 years with a wonderful mom than 53 years with a lousy one.
2008-02-20 12:51:36 / Rating: 468.75 /
Wolfgang DelaSangre
The best hug I ever got was just before I found out one of my friends was dead.
2008-02-08 16:50:09 / Rating: 468.5 /
Aj
Christmas just isn't so merry anymore.
2007-12-27 12:26:25 / Rating: 404.75 /
bleu
Fred died less than sixteen hours after he attended our concert, after which he had repeatedly told us how well we'd done.
2007-12-19 11:13:15 / Rating: 572.75 /
My dad, always looking for a bargain, picked up an ugly, dying, needles-falling-off tree on Christmas Eve; five hours later, he was dead and the tree was still there.
2007-12-19 11:11:01 / Rating: 481.25 /
Dormouse
My best friend was ecstatic to meet her mother, the woman that walked out on her as a child.
2007-12-13 13:11:31 / Rating: 361.5 /
veronicaromm
They drove frantically as she bled and lost their twins.
2007-12-13 00:17:57 / Rating: 461 /
Astral
I will never live in a world as bright and beautiful and alive as I did when I was six.
2007-12-03 15:15:43 / Rating: 678.5 /
David
I collapsed into a chair when the vet told me he had cancer, but he put his head in my lap to comfort me, sensing only my sadness.
2007-12-03 15:13:19 / Rating: 817 /
Alisha
In less than 24 hours, I found out he constantly dropped ecstasy, cheated on me by sleeping with his cousin's 15 year old best friend, fooled around with his best friend's sister, and that everything I knew in this world from the man I was ready to marry was a lie.
2007-11-24 18:30:56 / Rating: 587.5 /
Just me
I am one of the ones that got burned by a home loan that was too good to be true.
2007-11-19 23:22:02 / Rating: 292.75 /
ivana
The 1/32nd dose of the experimental drug cut her cancer in half, and I can't help but wonder if she would be alive today if they would have just given her a full therapeutic dose.
2007-10-03 10:03:41 / Rating: 558.5 /
ivana
My first kiss happened just months after my mother died.
2007-10-03 10:01:33 / Rating: 576.25 /
Theoretical Theory
I'm convinced that if I had just asked her to prom she wouldn't have moved away and we would be together.
2007-10-01 13:50:08 / Rating: 377.5 /
katlyn
Elliott Smith helped me survive the summer.
2007-08-19 21:35:42 / Rating: 453.75 /
Prince Albert
Rod Stewart and I are the only two people who have ever felt this way.
2007-08-10 13:06:04 / Rating: 400 /
Just Another Girl
The minute you walked away, I knew you weren't a man.
2007-08-01 12:33:41 / Rating: 575.25 /
katlyn
I felt her grip loosen on my hand as she slipped away.
2007-07-11 12:59:33 / Rating: 531 /
Ryan
She walked into the room and coherency decided to step outside for a smoke break.
2007-07-05 17:29:42 / Rating: 478 /
JJ
You never wrote back, and today I stopped expecting you to.
2007-07-03 17:12:16 / Rating: 504 /
Mourning
Knowing that my miscarriage brought him relief is something I'm not sure I'll ever forget.
2007-06-22 10:48:05 / Rating: 2711 /
lady
On the day I miscarried, I drove to a job interview, and when the Misfits came on the radio, I wondered if I'd still be able to listen to songs about killing babies after I'd lost my own.
2007-06-22 10:47:36 / Rating: 497.25 /
L.K.
He knew I didn't love him anymore when I turned away to sleep after sex instead of letting him hold me.
2007-06-15 13:37:14 / Rating: 481.5 /
Robert Gillmer
I had gone 28 years - my entire life - without touching a dead body, and I'm quite content to go another 28 years before doing it again.
2007-06-13 10:10:23 / Rating: 501.75 /
XT_Momma
I wouldn't have been such a bitch if I had known I would never see you again.
2007-05-31 14:50:19 / Rating: 472 /
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: 496.25 /
kalypsodore
The outside of our house looked pristine,untouched, not a window broken, but when we tried to unlock the door, we found the key-hole was full of mud.
2007-03-01 14:28:50 / Rating: 381.25 /
Aeris
I didn't expect myself to survive to see the two year anniversary of the day they told me it had been a single bottle of pills that took her away.
2007-02-23 09:15:51 / Rating: 569.5 /
Serena
I decided to never look at his MySpace page again.
2007-01-25 11:28:03 / Rating: 619.75 /
Serena
Friends are there for you no matter what, unless they sleep with your boyfriend.
2007-01-01 19:56:20 / Rating: 530.75 /
MIA Robin
I was suddenly uninvited from my step daughter's wedding so the man who had brutalized her mother for 25 years could show up in a borrowed suit and later depart after the reception without even saying goodbye to anyone.
2006-12-11 20:24:32 / Rating: 564.5 /
Anon
I was teaching on 9/11, and after I dismissed my students, for a long time afterward I couldn't interact with any of them without wondering if I would eventually read that they had "died in the service of their country."
2006-11-05 11:42:26 / Rating: 453 /
Bec
I hate that I'm always right.
2006-11-01 16:17:59 / Rating: 493.5 /
DeepEndZen
It's not the hangovers I fear the most, but the fact that I've lost a few hours of my life that I can never get back.
2006-10-23 09:35:17 / Rating: 460 /
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.
2006-10-22 01:34:27 / Rating: 683.5 /
Johnny Sorrow
When I said to her "do with me what you will," I didn't think she'd go so far.
2006-09-04 23:01:49 / Rating: 643.5 /