Story archives - tag: "tragedy"

Zippo

My husband, my dog, and my mom all died in the same month due to separate, unrelated house fires.

tags: tragedy fires death unbelievable [add]

2009-12-22 08:49:11 / Rating: 174.75 /

Carin

While playing pool with a stranger I was casually told that my childhood best friend had committed suicide.

tags: suicide coincidence tragedy bad timing [add]

2008-08-04 17:16:13 / Rating: 278.5 /

Feenix

He sang to me as we danced in the fountain and later he caressed my cheek, stroked my neck, touched my adam's apple, and asked me if I was a man.

tags: dating humor dating tragedy [add]

2008-07-21 16:12:16 / Rating: 403.25 /

Stan

My dad was slowly bleeding to death by the roadside some 100 meters away when I was washing the dishes for the first time in my life.

tags: death father hit and run tragedy [add]

2008-01-16 14:45:17 / Rating: 391.25 /

kc

It was the night I was supposed to make you mine, and then the water main exploded.

tags: tragedy relationships [add]

2007-12-06 12:17:15 / Rating: 239.5 /

T.

He would kiss my forehead and move my hair from my eyes in a way that will be forever with me even though he is gone.

tags: love tragedy [add]

2007-08-24 16:31:37 / Rating: 404.25 /

Shaden Freude

She had no idea that when she sarcastically said "I know I'm going to die," about getting her wisdom teeth pulled that she actually would.

tags: irony death tragedy [add]

2007-07-05 17:28:29 / Rating: 366.75 /

ksmith

My adopted son saw his mom, dad and sister, along with her unborn child, shot and killed after he had been shot in the head, stabbed, sliced and left to die in his house the perpetrator had set on fire.

tags: tragedy death [add]

2007-03-13 12:48:48 / Rating: 335 /

Olivoi

A reporter came to our school the day after the biggest tragedy we'd ever experienced wanting to interview the traumatized and heartbroken students, so they threw rocks and cans at him and his cameraman.

tags: high school tragedy reporter unwelcome [add]

2007-02-21 09:46:53 / Rating: 437.75 /

Wogglebug

My parents thought I was disturbed when I went as a serial killer one year, but it was time the Trix Rabbit learned that no means no.

tags: halloween humor childhood tragedy [add]

2006-10-30 00:20:23 / Rating: 436.5 /

cz

She embraced me with the warmth of her skin, the wine on her breath and the smile on her lips and I felt absolutely nothing.

tags: relationship humor tragedy nothing beginning of the end memory regret [add]

2006-10-05 10:56:08 / Rating: 395 /

saunya

I held my father's hand as he died in that hospital room and realized I'd never held his hand before that moment.

tags: tragedy father death [add]

2006-09-10 00:30:06 / Rating: 2506.75 /