The Backwards-Walking Man:

After many years living in Los Angeles, a friend and I decided to take the midnight tour of the Queen Mary (which consistently ranks among the most haunted places in America and is now an event center/hotel combo). The midnight tour is run by a psychic, and includes a full tour of the ship, so we figured it would be a…

House of Illusion

Last year my wife and I moved from a small town back to the small city where I had previously lived. Both our kids were in college, the landlord sold our building so it seemed like the right time. Plus, we had to rent a place in the city so our daughter could use public transit to commute to campus. We were told by an…

Last year, I moved back to my (rather small) hometown and began working at the local history museum. The town was settled in the early 18th century and was occupied by the British for a while during the Revolutionary War. When the British left, they burned the town on their way out and later it was rebuilt a few miles…

I grew up in a remote north eastern town in the province of Quebec. After my parents separated, my mom moved my siblings and I into an older house on a cul-de-sac street. The neighbourhood was for the most part a decent place to raise kids and teens, however the area had experienced issues with a high volume of…

But it adds to the suspense! I rather like it! “...like a box of chocolates, you never know what you gone get!" 😁

I posted a story last year kind of late and don’t think I got out of the greys, so here’s to traditions. This is a new one.

I live in a condo complex of attached townhouses. On one side there’s an older lady (in her very late 80s) and two of her middle aged children. They’re all pretty friendly, in that old Italian…

Okay, this might get lost in the abyss, but I know that a lot of folks read these all month. Bear with me, this got a little long as I typed it out.

This is my first time posting, and I apologize for the length. I have never physically written any of this down, so once I got started, it just poured out.

When I was 23, I traveled for the first time to Seattle with my mom, dad and 17 year old sister. We went to check out the university and do some generic sightseeing. This was back in the dark ages of AOL and dial up, so my mom used AAA to find and book a hotel in a rather random industrial neighborhood. I think she…

Even later they don’t do much...I had a missed miscarriage at 14 weeks (the fetus died but stayed in the womb). I had horrible contractions for a week along with a fever and my dr refused to see me, his receptionist told me to: “suck it up, it’ll come out eventually”. Finally my husband couldn’t take my suffering any…

Seriously, were this any other circumstance, they would be telling women to cover up more in the restroom because it’s in men’s nature to roam the earth sniffing out vaginas like malnourished hyenas.

Well, that’s just what hetero dudes have done for centuries! That’s normal. Trans people peeing next to you tho, that’s yucky.

Well, it turns into stupid fucking drama three-quarters of the time. I am one of the people god never intended to go to the movies because I develop bat-hearing the minute I sit in a theater seat and can hear ANYTHING ANYONE SAYS ANYWHERE IN THE STATE for the duration of time in the theater. I had to develop a…

Sucks for parents who can’t find evening sitters.

That’s how I read it to. Don’t be talked into something you don’t want to do, don’t say maybe to seem nice, be assertive in your refusals, etc. Not sure I’d put it on a shirt, but I can’t say I disagree (at least with how I interpreted the message, and you too it seems).

Huh. I read it completely differently. I read it as don’t let someone bully you into doing something you aren’t sure about. If you want to say no to the D, then for gosh sakes, say no.