After my tank run out of oxygen, I swam as fast as I could, desperate to reach the surface. But as my hands crashed against the sand, I immediately understood that in the darkness of the sea, I didn’t realize which direction was up.
By u/Daisyloo66
[SEP24] I read my daughter a picture book that described royalty as having “blue blood”. The last words she whispered before passing out in the ambulance were “I just wanted to see if I really was a princess, like you and daddy told me”.
By u/JeffreyFarmer
"Live 1 year without your greatest talent and you get 1 billion dollars" was a deal i could not pass on so i accepted it. I can't breathe
By u/redactedtobecorrect
Being a young single dad, it took me 2 years to save enough money to take my 5 year old daughter to Disney World. Once we entered the Magic Kingdom, I let her run free and smiled as my financial problems disappeared with her.
By u/Repulsive_Golf7784
When you were put under for brain surgery, you were so relieved that you'd finally get rid of this parasite after who knows how long. From the inside of a small jar, you awake to see your own body looking at the doctors with the eyes of a scared child.
By u/Pietin11
I set the date to 9/11, certain I’d arrived just in time to stop the disaster everyone warned about. But as I walked through the quiet streets, I overheard whispers about something horrific from two months ago, and dread sank into my chest
By u/udayramp
Standing at the Pearly Gates, I asked "Why didn't my life flash before my eyes when I died?" God Replied "Because you only get to experience that once."
By u/NippleSalsa
"Please, God, don't let it look in the closet," I silently prayed. "Please, God, don't let it look in the closet," it parroted back from the next room.
By u/thisisnotchicken
"Is it a girl or a boy, my dear?” asked a lady whose hair I had just styled. “I'm having a baby boy!” I answered excitedly with my back turned, placing a comb back in my hairstyling kit while forgetting that I was a mortuary cosmetologist.
By u/Ghost_In_The_Shell_9
After a solid month of our daughter crying about a "monster" peering in through her bedroom window, my husband had the idea of making a "trap". His name was Kenneth Smith, he lived down the street from us for years.
By u/ISwearImaWriter963
As the stranger made mommy scream and cry, the bright 4 year old picked up the phone and dialed 911. "You're one of Elmo's BEST friends!" the toy phone replied.
By u/salaryboy
It was seven years ago when my son and I put my husband in the ground after his drunk driving accident. And to this day I'm still grateful my hometown hates him as much as I did, especially when the police started asking questions.
By u/Agitated_Loquat_7616
"The Anagram Killer has struck again tonight, only leaving behind a note that reads "Once you unscramble my name, I have lost the game". The newsreader finished detailing the crime, before signing off with her name, Karla Malinger.
By u/Pudenator
I stare in puzzlement as my wife of 10 years suddenly yells "CLEAR!!!!" in a strange voice. The breakfast table and our 2 beautiful daughters fade away and I wake up in a bustling emergency room, unknown people hunched over me.
By u/AttilaRS
As an adult, I’ve always kept my imaginary friends a secret to avoid embarrassment. When the waitress asked if we were all sitting together, I started questioning everything.
By u/RyeBop
The prophet had warned that her daughter would kill her. She assumed it would happen in childbirth, yet here she was—healthy, cradling a baby girl with eyes full of innocence and wonder.
By u/TheAmmiSquad
"Hello, I know this is awkward, but you're my biological mother through my parents' in vitro fertilization." I stared in shock at the young woman who looked so strikingly like me, because I don't remember ever having been an egg donor.
By u/PrettyAdvertising586
There's a guy in my class that could only answer "10" to any questions he's asked. One day, one of my classmate went missing, and he now say "11"
By u/HonestFliplineFan
I paid for my new car to have top of the line safety features, like windows that could stop a .50 caliber bullet. After the accident, they also stopped the first responders getting to me before the fire did.
By u/Chemical-Elk-1299