All confessions

6 first-person stories across 5 categories.

Real Stories

One late evening, an ordinary salon appointment turned into an embarrassing chain of accidents I could never have predicted.

We were all in our twenties and convinced we were the most interesting people alive. Two of us were wrong.

It's still sitting in my drafts. Three years later. His name at the top of it like an address to nowhere.

It happened two months before the wedding. Nobody did anything wrong. That's the part that makes it worse.

Twenty-six, quiet, always in the kitchen at parties. I was nineteen and very sure I was subtle. I was not subtle.

The alarm wasn't working, the lights were half-dead, and he kept looking at my mouth when he thought I wasn't watching.