Sometimes in life, there are such moments when complete despair sets in. You do not know what to do; you have to proceed. Such a period came in Sandra’s life at the end of the Fall. Her mother became seriously ill, and the girl stayed at her mother’s bedside for days and nights, caring for her as well as she could. Treatments required a large sum of money, and though her father was a military man, his salary was still insufficient for food and medicine. The medical expenses were such that the family could barely survive. But no one ever…
Author: town gist
I’m a man in my 40s living in Seoul. When I was young, I couldn’t even date because all I did was work. My parents died early, and I had to raise my little sister. I think I only worked throughout my 20s as my younger sister studied hard and entered a good university. I felt my hard work paid off when she reached legal age. However, her nagging increased for me to date girls. “You had sacrificed for me so long, it’s time you meet a nice girl and settle down. Don’t worry about me anymore.”Of course, I also…
The neighbors were making loud noises all night again. Peter knocked a couple of times to no avail. It seemed that they only intensified even more. The woman who owned the apartment was laughing, a male voice muttered, and then there was more music. Peter barely got out of bed through his robot shuffling, naughty feet. He went out on the landing and rang the doorbell next door.“What do you want, old man?” a young woman with colorful makeup looked out the ajar door.“Linda, it’s two in the morning,” said Peter tiredly. “I can’t fall asleep, you’re so noisy.”“He can’t…
I am a very beautiful and stunning lady. That’s what people tell me. When I step out of the house, I could get about twenty people complimenting my beauty. And my mirror also tells me I am easy on the eyes. However, I never let it get to my head. I kept myself focused on my books. I told myself I would like to be a big woman in future. And the way to get there was through my schoolwork. So I studied hard and completed high school with good grades. The program was a distant one so I only…
I met her in a store where she was an attendant and fell in love with her eyes, the way she spoke to me and how soft-looking she was. Because of her, I went to the store every day to look for something new to fall in love with. With time, she came to know my face, and then my name and then my number. She told me, “I close at 10 p.m. That’s too late to see someone.” At 10 p.m that night, I stood by the shop waiting for her to close. When she saw me she smiled.…
Things were fine in our relationship. That was what I knew and believed. We hadn’t had any major fights or problems. We went to bed one night saying to each other, “Good night babe, I love you. Then the next morning this told me, “Babe, I have been doing a lot of thinking, and this is hard for me to say but I want you to know that it’s the truth. I love you but I don’t deserve you. I believe you are too good for me. That’s why I want to let you go so you can meet a…
I have tried to share my story a few times in the past but I have lacked the courage to send it. Even as I am sharing it today, it’s because I get to hide behind the shield of anonymity. I just have to get this off my chest, and hopefully some good counsel. This is what happened… I met this Nigerian guy in Ghana who expressed interest in me. He came to Ghana for work. I liked him enough to date him, however, I wasn’t serious about him. I don’t mean in the sense that I treated him poorly,…
Maria and Peter mourned their son, who had died in a tragic accident. They went to his grave every day, but after a month or so, they noticed that someone had gone ahead of them each time. There was a new rose on his grave every day. But who put them there? Peter had a solution to this mystery: he installed a camera to see who it was. Peter and Maria saw how the screen twitched and a pop-up window opened. All they had to do now was press play to see who had put those red roses on their…
His mother abandoned him because he was “ugly.” What he did 10 years later is hard to believe. In a world where beauty reigns supreme, Catherine stood as a paragon of vanity and self-absorption. Her life, a canvas painted with the hues of her own physical allure, was devoted to her pursuit of a dream: to grace the runways of the fashion capitals. This singular ambition consumed her, shaping every decision and every thought. But the arrival of her son, a child she deemed too unsightly for the judgmental eyes of the world, shattered her meticulously curated existence. Catherine’s response…
After the obstetrician took Margaret’s newborn baby, he was shocked and let out a scream when he heard the newborn utter one word. That shock prompted him to do something that eventually saved the baby’s life. Margaret and her husband Max were overjoyed when, after many weeks of waiting, she finally went into labor. The delivery was long and painful, but when they got to hug their little boy, they felt like the luckiest people on the planet. Then the doctor took her newborn sons away to an adjoining room for examination. He was a skilled professional who was performing…