Lore

Writer. Stories that stay with you.

[Lore @Lorrre_1]

After my best friend and I stopped talking, I muted the group chat and deleted her number.

I didn't delete the voicemails. I just never opened them.

One night, my phone said: "Storage almost full. Review old messages."

At the very top was a voicemail from three years ago.

Her name. Forty-one seconds.

I stared at it for a long time.

Me: "Why am I even considering this?"

I pressed play anyway.

Within seconds, I remembered everything. Her terrible singing in the car, the way she said my name when she was pretending to be mad, the night we ate cereal on a kitchen floor and called it dinner......

[Ifeanyichukwu @IfyG_ifeanyi]

A stranger handed me a note at my own baby shower.

I was seven months pregnant, standing by the cake, laughing with my sister.

A woman in a gray coat pressed a folded napkin into my palm. Tired eyes. Shaking hands. She whispered, Read it when you're alone. Then she walked out.

In the bathroom, I unfolded it. Four words in pen.

Check his phone tonight....

[Timming @I_am_Tkgold]

私は、夫が15周年記念に30,000ドルのダイヤモンドネックレスを贈ったレストランのテーブルで、別の男性にキスしました。

私は記念日のディナーで別の男性にキスしました。

夫が、私たちの家族全員の前で、30,000ドルの高価なダイヤモンドのネックレスを私に贈ったばかりです。

彼の母親はワイングラスを落としました。

皆が話すのをやめました。

私がキスした男性は私の夫ではありませんでした。

彼はデート相手と3つのテーブル離れた場所に座っていました。

夫は私を数秒間見つめました。

それから、怒る代わりに、彼は微笑みました。

その時、何かがひどく間違っていることに気づきました。

彼はその件について知っていた

レストランは突然、耐えがたいほど静かに感じました。

夫はゆっくりと立ち上がりました。

彼と会ってから6か月になるんですね？

話すことができませんでした。

彼のご両親は私を見つめていました。

私の妹は口を覆いました。

私がキスした男性はすぐに立ち上がりました。

夫は彼を見ました。

座った方がよろしいでしょう。

彼は困惑しているように見えました。

何ですか？

夫はテーブルの上にフォルダーを置きました。

内部には写真、ホテルの領収書、メッセージ、そして日付がありました。

すべて。

胃が下がるのを感じました。

これらはどうやって手に入れましたか？

夫が私を見ました。

あなたが秘密を抱えている唯一の人物ではありませんでした。

[Favysparkle @_shola__]

彼女は、元恋人が私たちの予備の寝室に滞在していると私に言いました。

彼女が冗談だと思っていました。

彼女はそうではありませんでした。

彼女は、彼がアパートを失った後、他に行く場所がないと言い、彼が2週間滞在できると約束したと述べました。

彼がすでに引っ越してきたのに、なぜこれを聞くのかと尋ねました。

彼女は言いました：

あなたが断ると知っていたからです。

それは、元恋人がそこにいるよりも私を苛立たしくさせました。

しかし、私は彼に滞在させることに同意しました。

2週間で私たちの関係が壊れるとは思っていませんでした。

私は間違っていました。

[mlaguzi🚬 @omwanba_]

One of the craziest things about working for some extraordinarily wealthy people is how little they want to pay you. One client of mine was an heiress billionaire. She made a huge deal about paying me 40 dollars an hour, refusing payment because the work wasn’t exactly what she

[Alure @EkpoIruoghene8]

For six weeks, my mother-in-law spent every Sunday afternoon in her kitchen with the blinds closed.

Pots were always clattering. Something was always burning.

She wouldn’t let anyone in until she was “finished.”

Then I found a stack of handwritten recipe cards in a script I didn’t recognize.

I asked what she was doing.

She just said, “I’m trying to get something right…..

[D ø l l á r z z 💰 @abdoulllmuhd]

My landlord suddenly forgave six months of rent.

The reason had nothing to do with money.

I was already behind on rent after losing my job.

One evening, my landlord knocked on my door.

I expected an eviction notice.

Instead, he handed me a piece of paper.

“Your rent is cleared for the next six months.”

I thought he was joking.

“Why?”

He looked at me for a moment and said,

“Because of something you did last week.”

I had no idea what he meant.

[HAMSKY ♥️ @HamskyHbb]

my coworker started coming into the office 30 minutes early every day and leaving exactly at 5. nobody understood why because he used to stay late almost every night. one friday, i asked him what changed. he smiled and said, “i made a promise to someone.” i assumed he had a new girlfriend. then he told me who he was actually rushing home to see…

[Lissa♥️♥️ @lizzkelly7]

my ex constantly wept about his crippling family financial debts, claiming he was sending every extra dime of his personal copywriter cash flow back home to fund his younger sister's emergency medical care. he skipped our anniversary dinners to save capital, complained about the price of a basic coffee, and eventually asked me to lend him six thousand eight hundred dollars from my personal savings account to cover an upcoming emergency clinical cycle. out of deep compassion, i processed the mobile wire transfer instantly.
the reality check hit two weeks later, when i logged into my primary travel application to check my loyalty points.
because he had used my shared tablet to browse his logistics during our relationship, his active search history was still synced directly to my dashboard. it revealed a confirmed, ultra-luxury solo vacation itinerary for a private villa resort in diani. he hadn't sent a single dollar to a medical facility; he had used my genuine empathy and my hard-earned savings layer as a cheap optimization strategy to fund a premium beach getaway package with his new social circle.

[Lily @Lily_0030]

My mom had one rule after my dad died:
“Never throw away his old jacket.”
I thought it was because she missed him.
Years later, while cleaning the house, I finally asked her why.
She reached into the pocket.
Inside was a tiny folded piece of paper.
It said:
“If our son ever feels like giving up, remind him that his dad believed in him before anyone else did.”
I was stunned.
My dad had written it years before he died.
I asked Mom why she'd never shown it to me.
She wiped her eyes...

[Michael @Pitchside_CF]

A friend of mine, 38, moved back in with his father a few months ago.

At dinner, someone laughed:

“Thirty-eight and back in your old bedroom. Nice way to cut expenses.”

He could have laughed it off.

He didn't.

“I didn't come back so my father could look after me.”

The table went quiet.

[Tulip 💐 @cutelipssx]

Two people boarding the plane behind me, and I overhear that they have about 30 minutes to get from LaGuardia to JFK. 😳 We are scheduled to land around 5pm on a weekday.

One said “worth it to save $100.” I didn’t have the heart as a local to tell them that the current google map prediction they are looking at right now in Kansas City is NOT going to be accurate for when we land. That “saved” $100 is gonna go to rebooking their connecting flight.

…and our flight is slightly delayed. 🫣

[Ella @EllasArchive1]

My daughter asked to switch schools halfway through her senior year, three months before college applications were due. When I pushed for a reason, she finally told me about the teacher she'd been too scared to name for two years.

Daughter: "I can't keep sitting in his class every day pretending nothing happened."

Me: "What happened, exactly? You've never told me this had anything to do with a specific teacher."

Daughter: "Because I didn't think anyone would believe me over him. He's 'teacher of the year.' Everyone loves him."

I felt the floor tilt slightly under a conversation I realized I should have had two years earlier.

[𝐌𝐫.𝐊𝐀𝐋™ @dekim_Kalvino]

Our manager sent an email saying, “Please stop printing unnecessary documents. We need to reduce paper waste.”

The next morning, he walked in holding 63 pages and asked, “Can someone print these for me?” ....

[Blairvic @blairvic02]

My DoorDash driver called me because he couldn’t find my apartment.

I gave him directions, then noticed he was standing outside the building next door.

I went downstairs to wave him over.

He looked at me and said, “Oh. You’re the person who ordered?”

I said yeah.

He handed me the food, then quietly said, “You should probably check your order before you go upstairs.”

I thought he meant the restaurant messed something up.

I opened the bag.

[Mario, PT @Mario_Sneh]

My best friend had been chėating on his wife for months, and I genuinely felt terrible for her.

From everything I knew about his wife, she’s a genuinely good woman who had no idea what was happening behind her back.

I hated being dragged into his mess, but one night, my best friend, the woman he was chëating with, and I went out to dinner.

So while we were eating dinner with the woman he was cheating with, I secretly called his wife.

I put my phone face-down and let the call continue.

A few minutes later, his phone rang.

His wife.

He answered.

She asked what he was doing.

He said:

“Having dinner with Mario.”

She asked if anyone else was there.

[Aubrey Strobel @aubreystrobel]

Had to take a ~2-hour Uber this morning.

The driver asked me to cancel the ride and pay him off the books saying uber only gives him 20% of the fare.

I told him I wasn’t comfortable with that because there’d be no way to track my ride or ensure my safety.

So he canceled the ride and left lol.

[FireBird @FieryHasbara]

Just met an english couple from Oxford, who've lived in Thailand for 15yrs, renting their house back home, living a great lifestyle on around £1500 a month inc rent.

"We love it out here, we just hang around with all the other ex pats"

"You mean immigrants"

Silence was loud😏

[EgoKuwait 🇰🇼 @Egokuwait]

The world is really changing.
I just saw a video of this guy telling his neighbor's daughter to stay outside and wait for her mummy to come back. He gently led her outside his apartment and locked the door.
Another guy in the comments said he once waited outside in the rain with his neighbour's daughter until her mom got back to avoid any stories.

[Hinato @opsylojay1]

I made that mistake.

I was working warehouse. Good crew. We all talked shit, joked around. One dude, Marcus, was my boy. Or so I thought. We'd ride together, gym after shift, I even helped him fix his car.

I was having a rough patch. My wife and I were fighting a lot. Money was tight. She wanted to separate for a bit. I was sleeping on my brother's couch for two weeks.

I told Marcus. Just him. Man to man. I told him "Bro don't tell nobody, I'm embarrassed as hell. Me and my girl going through it, I'm trying to get my head right."

He was like "I got you bro, that's between us. Every man goes through it."

[柴犬ふく Ph.D 🇯🇵🇺🇸🇩🇪 @sigdig0605]

さっき学会でアジア系女性と仲良さそうに喋っていた白人男性がいたんだが、その二人連れが別会場に移る時に席を立って道を譲ったら、白人男性の方がすれ違い様にワイに”asshole ”って言ってきたんやがw w w

なんでアジア系女性と連れ立っている白人男性っていつもあんな感じやねん🤣🤣