Stories told in one sentence. Some are funny, some are poignant some are just weird. Here are a few examples:
When I was 5 or so my mom would tell me to lie down before she tied my tie and I just now realized at the age of 19 that she did this because she’s a funeral director.
My 8-year-old sister proudly declared that she knows that “WTF” means “Wow, That’s Funny” and has been using it all over the internet.
I held my father’s hand as he died in that hospital room and realized I’d never held his hand before that moment.
Today you shaved your hair into a mohawk to make my mom laugh over losing hers to chemo and today I realized that you are my hero.
When asked to name the one person absent from her life that she missed the most, she responded, “The person I hoped I’d be by this point in my life.”
I conduct job interviews for a living and nothing gives me a better sense of wielding karma than giving the job to the nervous kid instead of the better qualified arrogant prick.
My online dating service matched me with my cousin.
Arriving home after sitting in traffic for two hours, I said to myself, “Oh, wait, I don’t live here anymore.”
As I woke up from my nap to find written on my feet “This is my momma and you can’t have her,” I realized that my child is very, very strange.
My mother called me to do a chore and i responded, “What you need, Woman,” to which my father chided, “Your mother is NOT a woman!”
From various locations on the net
“This is a story of a 16 year old boy from New Hampshire , England who won the World’s shortest essay competition.
He was awarded a scholarship at the University of Harvard for his imagination and humour.
Here’s an example of absolute brilliance….
Shortest Essay:
An English university creative writing class was asked to write a concise essay containing the following elements:
1) Religion 2) Royalty 3) Sex 4) Mystery
The prize-winner wrote:
‘My God,’ said the Queen, ‘I’m pregnant. I wonder who the father is.’”
I sat in a bar, surrounded by people, but completely alone.
This one’s my favorite: My crazy Polish dad came inside after digging a hole for a new tree in the backyard, holding the skull of “Speedy,” my cat who had died months before and said, “Look, it’s Speedy! Meow!”
The mohawk story breaks my heart.