I’m come from a family of Midwesterners who hunt. Responsible hunters would never fire at something that they didn’t know what it was. That’s how you end up murdering someone. Also what’s “late season deer hunting”? You need permits to hunt in the U.S. and “season” is based on rifle or bow, and very specific dates.

Long time reader, first time posting a story. This happened when I was around 6-7 years old. My older sister (we’ll call her Marie) had a lot of behavioral problems that, maybe in a different family, would have been recognized for what they were and treated with compassion and real resources. But instead it was our…

All three of us clearly heard someone sneeze a few feet away from us.

This reads like a very earnest student in a creative writing programme, who’s trying their best to write in dialect

Suspenseful, but this reads like fiction.

Okay weird question but how did you know how much time had passed each time if you didn’t have a watch or phone?

Can we talk about how your boyfriend just ran and left you behind?

Please delete your creative writing attempt. This is not the place. 

I totally agree! We definitely need more, and better, titles for these stories. Like, no one will remember Untitled Story #whatever of year 20xx, but damned if we don’t all remember “Look At Me”.

I have some STRONG OPINIONS about titles. I’ve been reading this from the beginning. Back in the beginning, Anna North or Dodai Stewart or Erin Gloria Ryan or whomstever (all excellent hosts of these spooky proceedings) would read through the comments and GIVE stories shared in the comments a title. Their titles were…

it’s kind of weird that you used the qualifier “as long as they’re not doing any damage to anyone’s drinking water or whatever”, in direct reference to something that is very much known for damaging nearby drinking water.

“Mormons are so NICE!”

Rein in.

I finally taught myself a way to tell which to use. I just remembered “special effects” is a noun phrase and now I can remember. Before, if I couldn’t get it for sure, I would just find another way to say it. And I’m not getting paid to write.

Do cable TV celebrities also confuse you as a concept?

Where’s the sex? The word “sex” implies consent from both parties, and children are legally incapable of consenting to sex.

Skin grafts are super cool if you’re into that sort of science nerdiness. They are either full thickness (the epidermis and dermis are removed from the donor site) or split thickness (only the epidermis and a layer of the dermis are harvested). For split thickness grafts, they take such a thin layer of the skin that…

Wow, a whole 25% of the city is non-white!? That’s... still really white. And are most of the non-white people pushed into specific areas of town?

Came into article believing marijuana edibles are safer than alcohol. Read article and still believe it.

Kondo was never about minimalism, she was about decluttering and reexamining your habits. If one good knife is better than buying a shitty one, then replacing it 6 times without throwing the old one(s) away until you have 7 shitty useless knives, then ot makes sense to me that she would sell one good knife