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I Found An iPhone On The Ground And What I Found In Its Photo Gallery...
Flickr / Lea Latumahina It was sitting beside the curb outside my apartment. A white iPhone 4S in surprisingly good condition. I scooped it up from the ground to get a closer look. It probably belonged...
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I Went On An Illegal Camping Trip On The Great Wall Of China
Flickr / See-ming Lee When I first heard the plan, I wasn’t wildly enthused. I was sitting in my Advanced Chinese class at Peking University, toying with the face mask I’d had to drag along to school...
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I’ve Been Having Terrible Nightmares About My Newborn Baby
Flickr / Christina Welsh Somebody’s gotta wear a pretty skirt Somebody’s gotta be the one to flirt Somebody’s gotta wanna hold his hand So God made girls… The melody of the bubbly country song faded in...
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I Lost My Wife To A Drunk Driver And I Thought I’d Never Be Able To See Her...
Flickr / David Sledge The best and worst days of my life were separated by two years, three months, four days, three hours, and seven minutes, give or take a few seconds. The best? The day of my...
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I Woke Up One Morning Without A Reflection And I Don’t Know What To Do
Flickr / Pedro Klien When I woke up that morning, I didn’t have a reflection. This shit is kind of weird. Aren’t vampires or ghosts the only things that don’t have reflections? But even as I stared...
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I Lost My Sister To An Accident And For A Long Time, I Wished I Could Be With...
Flickr / Derrick Tyson A few months ago, my sister passed away. Today is her anniversary. Well, not the anniversary of her death. It’s her birthday, which we celebrate now as a kind of anniversary,...
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We Had A Strange Visitor During Minnesota’s Worst Blizzard In History
Flickr / renee_mcgurk Growing up on a small acreage in Minnesota certainly had its perks: There was a vast grove behind the house to mess around in, tractors to climb and explore, barns to build forts...
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I Had The Strangest Dream About My Sister
Flickr / Dee Ashley When I was a kid living on a small farm in Minnesota, my family had a dirt bike. Actually, if I remember correctly, it was really just a small motorcycle. My (incredibly short) mom...
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Have You Ever Wondered About The Afterlife?
Flickr / /\ \/\/ /\ When a person dies, there is always the obvious question of the afterlife. Most people spend their lives contemplating this idea, formulating opinions and arguing incoherently until...
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There’s A Haunted Lake In Minnesota And My Friend And I Decided To Swim In It
Flickr / Craig Myran Photography One of the most important people in my life is my best friend, Liz. On the surface, we seem to have nothing in common. I’ve got lanky brown hair. She has bouncy blonde...
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I Received A Disturbing Series Of Photographs From An Unknown Person
Flickr / Kim Love I don’t bother with my family much. To put it bluntly, I had a shitty childhood. My mom is an alcoholic who never gave a shit about anyone but herself. My dad screwed around the town,...
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I Moved Into The House Where My Brother Committed Suicide And Weird Things...
Flickr / Carolina Bello My younger brother died this past February. I should have known it was coming. As kids, we were really close, my brother and I. Spent all our time looking for toads in the...
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My Patient Exhibited Symptoms Of Something That Wasn’t Of This Earth
Flickr / lee I’m a therapist working in a hospital in the suburbs of a big city. About myself, I can only tell you that much. But don’t worry – it doesn’t matter. This happened a few years ago,...
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I Wish I Never Went Through My Little Brother’s Text Messages
Unsplash / Blair Fraser Oh, God, guys, I’m so terrified. I always knew. I always knew something was off about my little brother, but now… please, I need help. I just don’t know what to do. Anyone who...
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I Found Out The Dark Secret My Town Has Been Hiding Since The 1930s
Flickr / Jörg Schubert I’ve been working for our town’s little one-room for over 20 years now. You know what’s difficult about being a small town librarian? There are no children’s librarians, no...
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No Matter What You Might Be Feeling, Don’t Ever Try To Bring The Dead Back To...
Flickr / Ray Bodden I do not have any wise words to say about death. I think that, before I experienced it, I would have been able to write so many pretty words, so many desperate phrases justifying...
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At First, We Welcomed The Mysterious Vigilante Named ‘The Judge’
Flickr / Lazurite The Judge came to our neighborhood on a restless Saturday, following the crisp breeze of April. Throughout most of my life, I haven’t given much thought to the concept of vigilante...
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When Your Reality Starts To Glitch And You Notice The Distortions
Flickr / ben [deleted] It isn’t often a person can pinpoint the exact time their world started to crumble around them. As for me, however, I can tell you that it was precisely nine days ago at 10 AM...
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My Mother Finally Told Me The Horrible Truth That’s Been Haunting Our Family
Flickr / Alex Brown When I was a child, my mother used to talk a lot about Those People. When dad drove us to get ice cream after Sunday morning mass, mom would spy a group of teenage guys messing...
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I Found Out Why There Are Little Holes Around Graves In Our Town’s Graveyard
Flickr / Tim Green I live in a darling little town situated in the darling little countryside. And this darling little community has a darling little cemetery, just on the west edge of town. Do I spend...
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