My mom is a pretty hard-core, tough as nails lady. But, when we were little, she would cry at the end of The Velveteen Rabbit, every single time.

Oh my god! When I was 9 or 10 my mom and I read Little Women together (we alternated reading chapters out loud). At that part we just kept passing the book back and forth because we were both crying so hard and neither of us could speak.

My mom and I both WEPT during Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.

His body? His violence? Or the Bart cops executing him? (I thought he was shot by BART officers?)

A few years ago, I was having a massive craving for Indian food, so my husband picked some up from our favorite Indian restaurant by our old house (about 20 min from our new place). I got home from work and was very much looking forward to stuffing my face with the best Chicken Tikka Masala ever (mild for me because I…

My thirteenth birthday. New school. I had invited a bunch of girls over for a party in an attempt to integrate. Unbeknownst to me my Mother had received some live Maine lobsters for dinner. As I was coming down the stairs with my new “friends” good old Mom playfully pranked me by suddenly reaching around the stairwall…

My gym offers the classes as part of your membership, and at least insofar as pilates goes, it’s a classical style class where the instructor comes around and corrects your various issues of form. That’s why it’s worth paying extra, if you had to.

Sometimes I let him out in courtyard of my building, but not after dark. After dark he gets brave and I’m afraid someone’s going to take him home or he’s going to get hit by a car.

I am a[n emotionally stunted and/or sociopathic] 26-year-old man living in Michigan. I have a 17-year-old [and therefore, I assume, highly susceptible to manipulation through implicit or explicit threat of physically and/or emotionally abusive behavior] coworker [around] who[m I have constructed an elaborate sexual…

Nevertheless, calling the cops in a situation where someone clearly intentionally made you feel threatened is almost always a good idea. If another trail-user had gone missing or reported an actual crime, the police would have Ilmyrn’s mom’s report to reference. And that way they can pay a little extra attention to…

I’m positive we got our house because the previous owners didn’t repaint the murals they had commissioned. These people were obviously big on marine life, and they had a 12’ mural painted of an undersea scene on one wall, and a floor-to-ceiling grotto painted on another (right as you come down stairs) - part of their…

Totally not a winner but delightfully ironic! So ironic, in fact, that it only happened thirty minutes ago as I plunk away at the keyboard. Keep this in mind as you read and try not to be too disappointed. Thanksss.

When I was a kid, maybe five or six, my best friend and I got into this play-game where we would imagine that there were imps hiding under our furniture. The imps, we imagined, were tiny, demonic, invisible little characters with long, sharp teeth that would scutter around, lurk behind chair legs, cling to the bottoms…

This reminded me of my most terrifying camping trip ever. We were camping near Pacific City on the Oregon coast years ago and noticed there had recently been bear sightings. There was a mother and 2 cubs so everyone was told to keep food in their vehicles and to put garbage in the locked cans. My girlfriend, now wife,…

I used to work in a very remote town, while living in my hometown 30 miles away. I was 20 and my Dad had just secured me my very first car to make the commute, it was a mid 1990’s Thunderbird with oxidizing paint, leaked every fluid I put into it, and had shitty gas mileage. Needless to say I was in love.

A few bits of background are necessary for my story, so please forgive the long preface. I promise there’s not a “and I said to the cabbie, yo homes, smell ya later” at the end.

I have been there! Only for about ten minutes, because I felt super uncomfortable. I wasn’t afraid, but I was pretty sure that someone was watching me with disapproval. All of a sudden I got a very clear thought in my head that I should not “call” on people when “inappropriately shod.” (It had rained that day and I…

I’ve shared my scary stories in past threads. I will just say that because of these scary story contests, when my SO and I were shopping to buy our first home, all I could think about was every story I’ve read over the years on this annual thread. As a result, his deal breakers were if the house didn’t have a…

I love the little hand phones. I do super literal dance moves like that when I’m at home. Throw your hands in the air? WATCH ME.