(1) shadowangel | 5 months ago

Why? Why would you stay with him. That is a question I have been asked many times, though not always with words. People ask with their actions, with their looks, and with...

(1) sawboyrick | 5 months ago

June 6, 2009 I was three and my baby brother, Keith, was one. We were both in the living room. I was playing with a toy iron, pressing a washcloth on the small ironing bo...

(2) fashiondiva | 4 months ago

My head was pounding. My heart was racing. What was I doing here? I just wanted to have a little drink after work. You know, just to unwind after a hard day. I went to th...

(1) Jennifer Ann Gordon | 5 months ago

I have friends who own an organic lavender farm. They distill their own essential oils and create natural beauty and aromatherapy products from their harvests. Yiannis an...

(2) motherofmany | 5 months ago

I am amazed and inspired by the power of friendship I am about to share with you. I hope when you are done reading it you will see what I see. Dec. 5th, 2008 a young lady...

(2) goddess | 4 months ago

His lips felt perfect against hers. As he moved in closer, he retreated with the same speed. "You have no idea what've just done", he whispered in her ear as he withdrew ...

(3) jendaniele | 5 months ago

I think it might have been the last time my brother and I were to pose for a picture with Santa Claus. Or it could just be the only such memorable occasion. The overcast ...

(3) Blinky St. James | 5 months ago

The room had changed a lot since I'd last seen it. Of course, things change over the centuries, or maybe even decades. Technology was growing so much when I had died. The...

(1) hannahbanana | 5 months ago

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(2) procomicdiva | 5 months ago

Margaret sat wringing her hands in mute appeal as she tried once again to make the Reverend understand her situation. "Nothing would please me more Reverend, but the girl...

(1) fromthehipchick | 5 months ago

Let me start by saying that I am in a fantastic relationship for over 2 years and have no complaints. I don't have a ring on my finger yet either, which also isn't causin...

(4) annie | 5 months ago

Two cops found Grandpa Packy lying face up off State Route 532, near the tracks. Broke free from life support and made his getaway sometime in the middle of the night. I ...

(8) mssantos | 5 months ago

November 14, 2008, that is the date on the release papers from my previous employer. Like a dirty little secret that was discussed and documented about me, right behind m...

(2) Linda Lorie | 5 months ago

Potty Training A Penis - I'm a "girl"!! I can "do" girls. I'm up for it! I know how they think, act, and most of all I know how they PEE. I know all the nuances that goes...

(2) awaitingbloom | 4 months ago

It suns here like it's racing down rocks: a demanding deluge from sky-torn-through, we've got the Second Coming on our hands. For those precious fistful of sun-days we ge...

(2) screaminmama | 5 months ago

Kate reached in her purse and checked her cellphone as she crossed the corridor to her classroom. She hated that Jack hadn't called. “Morning, Kate.” Kate brushed her...

(8) biggerthnthesky | 5 months ago

She had made this reservation six months in advance. She had spent an astronomical amount on the perfect little black dress, not mention the shoes. She had spent time in ...

(2) Hank | 5 months ago

Her happy childhood would not last. The small village where she lived had older neighborhood juvenile delinquents who loved cornering defenseless young girls, touching an...

(3) aboutface | 5 months ago

There were many times in my life that I spent with my grandmother. I remember her walking around her big old house hunched over from scoliosis always cheerful always read...

(3) aboutface | 5 months ago

There's a nightmare underneath my bed, And he's wearing my new jeans. That nightmare underneath my bed Is really getting mean. He comes at night and takes my toys, He rob...

(1) goddess | 5 months ago

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(2) awaitingbloom | 4 months ago

Desmond Tutu gets today's "That's AWESOME!" Dude is hype like a party, man. Of course, I think I'd say it a bit differently: "I need to be me so that you can be you." Nit...

(2) tightgourmet | 5 months ago

I’ve hated math all my life—or at least since the third grade. That was the year Mr. Bunch decided to teach us arithmetic not only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,...

(9) hannahbanana | 5 months ago

"Mrs. Le Deux, were you home at the time?" The police officer was young, but had a soft gray coming to his temples. "No. My husband and I were out at the mall. Tomorrow i...

(1) ama51662 | 5 months ago

Katherine slides out of her robe and into the black pant, which fit her perfectly, hugging and hiding all the right places. She slips the shirt over her head and pushes h...

(4) aboutface | 5 months ago

"1,2,3,4,5......14,15,16.....34,35,36....45...67...79...100!!!!!" My forehead came off the rippled bark of the old giant tree. "Ready or not, here I come!!" I yelled at t...

(10) comictragedy | 4 months ago

The trip to the grocery store would be quick; just a few things needed for dinner. Her mother had just picked her up from day care; and, as usual, the car filled with her...

(2) procomicdiva | 5 months ago

Weymouth Falls Nova Scotia 1917 "You know dat there chile gots the gift right? you knows it you seen it. Walked right up to Isabel Pritchard an told her matter o fact she...

(1) jennyappleseed | 5 months ago

Diana hovers over her impending breakfast. Not just because the new, overpriced toaster Ted bought has the velocity of a circus cannon. It’s also that Diana likes her E...

(1) Ta' nia | 5 months ago

"What we want has nothing to do with what we expect."...Ta'nia D. We tend to think just because we want something it will come to pass. Many Network Marketers proclaim wi...

(3) fashiondiva | 5 months ago

My head was pounding. My heart was racing. What was I doing here? I just wanted to have a little drink after work. You know, just to unwind after a hard day. I went to th...

(1) Ms.Worry | 5 months ago

I'm flying without birth control right now and am getting tired of fumbling through the drawer to find a condom. Before having my son, I stuck with the pill that a doctor...

(4) comictragedy | 5 months ago

I've been thinking about the Spawn lately. Trying to reconcile their behavior with mine. We had completely different lives growing up; neither one better or worse. The di...

(6) JessicaLee | 5 months ago

"I wish I could get drunk with my dad, just once," I've caught myself saying to my friends and husband. "Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he quit, but to see that side of him...

(2) awaitingbloom | 4 months ago

Since the list from the previous post was SO good, I am going to take some more time to process it. "#2" reads: When in doubt, just take the next small step." Nothing in ...

(2) comictragedy | 5 months ago

I really love to read as many articles on PNN as I can. It's not that your headline caught my attention or that I agree with your position. I just like reading them to se...

(1) mzmoxietail | 5 months ago

One more date from the personal ads wouldn't hurt, I thought. Hell, the past personal ad dates had tossed me in the laps of... a bald crossdresser, a gay man straining fo...

(1) ama51662 | 5 months ago

I went to a costume party last night and let’s just say that things did not go quite as I expected them too. First of all let me tell you that I absolutely hate Hallowe...

(1) mariposa | 5 months ago

I was recently asked "what do you enjoy to do these days?" As I began to analyze my life and try to make sense of why I was having such a difficult time answering this qu...

(5) comictragedy | 5 months ago

I had to text her to let her know I had received the new insurance cards and would she stop by and pick up hers to keep in the car. I expected a quick message back lettin...

(2) fromthehipchick | 5 months ago

Let me preface this by saying that Megan Fox has a 22-INCH WAIST. Which means that regardless of her ridiculous looking stripper-esque stilettos, absurdly androgynous mak...

(1) katemcd | 5 months ago

Ingrid’s New World She was different, literally, in our college town; she’s a Technicolor dream now. She was different. A silhouette in black and white. Two dimension...

(2) Katherine Illescas | 5 months ago

As I slowly descend the subway steps with a cane due to a temporary injury, a voice calls out behind me, “Take your time, honey! Don’t rush! Look at me!” I look bac...

(0) fromthehipchick | 5 months ago

Um, girls? I said that I DANCED LIKE A HOOKER. Not that I was one. At no time during said dancing on tables, did the tatas make any appearances in exchange for monetary c...

(0) fromthehipchick | 5 months ago

Seriously, if this were a real disorder, we'd have so many fucking blobby, gelatinous men just oozing their douche-y-ness all over the place. And we, being the sweet-trea...

(0) fromthehipchick | 5 months ago

I feel like this needs to be said here and now, because if I don't get it out now, there's a very real chance that I will lose control of my own verbal reflexes and spew ...

(5) goddess | 5 months ago

Friday evening, 7:15 pm. Sapphire paces recklessly throughout the room. It takes her cell phone's ring to draw her attention. As she dives for the phone, she realizes tha...

(2) Ta' nia | 5 months ago

We sure are and will be for a long time to come. For some of you I know you are saying Ta' nia that topic is so last year, (lol) yet here we are again folks. Self image ,...

(1) motherofmany | 5 months ago

I had a few minutes on Friday so I thought I'd take a run to goodwill. Oh I found something all right--no not a dress or even shoes. I found an out of control mother!!! H...

(0) Jennifer Ann Gordon | 5 months ago

I sat in Karen and Yiannis’ kitchen talking with Karen while she prepared her amazing gourmet fare. Karen is an artist. She creates fabulous, fresh, beautiful meals. Ka...

(2) useyourwords | 5 months ago

A boy is building a palace. He reaches up to put a twisted turret into place and as he does, his shadow reaches out in the afternoon sunlight. It is so long that the shad...

(1) carmsblog | 5 months ago

It'll start with waking up without an alarm clock or noisy children trying to master the infamous Road Tour on Rockband for PS2. Using the drums no less.... You wake up.....

(2) loveisfree | 5 months ago

I didn't know why I felt like crying when he interrupted me in order to end the call. His emotions seem to be buried so much further beneath the surface. But I don't brin...

(2) shadowangel | 5 months ago

You never know what you really know until you are put to the test. There are many things I never thought I would ever know about. Being the wife of an inmate is one of th...

(1) aboutface | 5 months ago

Twas a holiday evening and all through the house No persons were stirring not even my spouse. The turkey was stuffed. The pies were all done. Deviled eggs sat on platters...

(1) Jennifer Ann Gordon | 5 months ago

Life needs crunch. Life without crunch is like crème brulée without the crunchy thin layer of burnt sugar on top. While the crème is good, it needs that delicious crun...

(1) charlie612 | 5 months ago

Amazing Grace I try not to release the exasperated sigh I am holding in when my co-worker announces that we will all be following Michael, eighteen-year old porn addict a...

(1) Jennifer Ann Gordon | 5 months ago

Recently, a friend asked me what the acronym ‘R.S.V.P.’ stood for. Respondez-Vous, S’il Vous Plait. Or, simply, “Please respond.” This lit a flame in me. R.S.V....

(1) Jennifer Ann Gordon | 5 months ago

Everyday holds so much aha potential. The last ten minutes of a meaningful conversation usually contain the aha . So stay with it. If I were to write aha instructions, th...

(3) annie | 5 months ago

When the police interrogated me after the incident, I told them everything I knew about Bob, the man I dated who was now splattered from rows 18 through 24 of Tyra Banks ...

(1) mariposa | 5 months ago

I am so disgusted and honestly just really having a hard time understanding what goes through peoples minds sometimes. I cannot believe the nerve of people these days. Le...

(1) LadyVi | 5 months ago

It was a hushed interlude. Before the sun had risen, before the prayer sounded. It was a time when stars still played in their navy blue sky. When a thin, slick wetness c...

(3) pab7969 | 5 months ago

“But it’s Mother’s Day”, she cried as she watched him walk out the door, suitcase in hand. She couldn’t catch her breath, the tears streamed down her face. She ...

(1) awaitingbloom | 4 months ago

I'm at home, eating my fried-tofu/blueberry/pistachio salad, trying to dry off from the unexpected sky-letting laughing about the ground that I had to walk home in withou...

(2) katemcd | 5 months ago

It all started seven years ago. Before there was Facebook and MySpace, there was Matt and I. There were no pictures, pokes, or wall posts. Becoming friends on social netw...

(1) therecessionista | 5 months ago

Okay... I need to apologize to all you out there who are actually reading these pages (all two of you) because I have not been keeping up to date with them. (Mostly, I am...

(2) fromthehipchick | 5 months ago

Alright, this little ditty is going to be for one Mr. Dog Walker- who's asked me to share my insight on why so many men seem to end up dating "certifiably insane" women. ...

(5) Sally G. | 5 months ago

(The following is purely fiction – except for the parts that are true.) “Why do you always say that,” Allison demanded, “you speak of words as though they are rea...

(0) sandra47 | 4 months ago

REMEMBERING MY DAD, WHO LOVED TO POLKA Dad has told us many stories about when he was young man and his eyes light up when he talks about dancing to old time music. When ...

(1) katemcd | 5 months ago

A Bittersweet Symphony His quiet confidence and hint of dangerousness make him immediately intriguing. Tall, dark, and handsome, he has that charm New England boys all se...

(2) motherofmany | 5 months ago

Sometimes I think I get so caught up in the drama of life that I forget about the little things that make me smile. Yesterday my little girl sat out front on the lawn swi...

(3) hannahbanana | 5 months ago

You’ve already read this story, if you're like me, and you know how it ends. You’ve already finished it, put it down, and gone back to your life. You know how it ends...

(1) DomesticallyDisabled | 5 months ago

What can I say? My 3-year-old is smart, quick and can stump me any day with her questions. How did she get this way at such a young age? I’d like to take all of the cre...

(1) chriscancook | 5 months ago

Looking into his eyes that night was akin to staring at the ocean until someone told you yes, it eventually ends. You want so much to deny common sense; nothing is here d...

(1) Juanita Fraser | 5 months ago

Betrayer Feb 2009 This is a true story and very sad at the same time. I will start from the beginning. My Grandfather had some problems, my parents took him in and he liv...

(0) fashiondiva | 5 months ago

I was assisting my boss on an account for a wealthy restaurateur and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Starling. They wanted to redesign the interior of their Queen Village Trinity....

(1) leandrea78 | 5 months ago

As I stood there and took one look into those deep blue eyes my heart was pulsating. I couldn't believe I was there. "What the hell am I doing," just kept racing through ...

(3) carmsblog | 5 months ago

I miss him. I don't know if he even knows that. Everyday my heart is heavy. I've been told that he loves me. I've been told that he thinks about me all the time, but not ...

(3) frajyle | 5 months ago

Our evening began on blustery 5th Avenue, the designated Flatiron meeting spot. In the chilly April air, while waiting for Sue to arrive from Long Island, Sara and I chat...

(1) TwentySomethings | 5 months ago

I’m not sure when it first occurred to me that the way a man holds his guitar will be the way he will hold me, but this theory has proven itself to be relentlessly true...

(0) lynamber | 4 months ago

LANDSCAPES Stanley Kuniz wrote “I have walked through many lives, some of them my own.” I, too, have walked through many lives–and many landscapes. My childhood’s...

(2) awaitingbloom | 4 months ago

Streaked in yearning, and this stretching holds my hand pounding to the door, I know what I've got can't be the lot of what life promises for: Relinquish the room of a tw...

(1) DomesticallyDisabled | about 1 month ago

As a 31-year-old working wife and mother of two adorable girls, I am constantly on the go and have to be able to laugh at myself along the way. Learning that lesson has h...

(1) chriscancook | 5 months ago

It's easy here, darling, if you know the way to be Emotionless and unconcerned, removed completely But you're a shadow in the night who comes to haunt my heart Yeah, watc...

(1) perne | 5 months ago

April 5, 1961 There’s not much traffic now. It’s early, just creeping up on six o’ clock. If it were winter, it would be blue-black dark now. But it’s not dark. I...

(1) angelin | 4 months ago

In the olden days, in a time long, long ago there was a very small village with only four families. The men of the village were farmers and each day they tended their fie...

(4) anewphilosophy | 4 months ago

(Note: I’m posting this except (from a novel I’ve been trying to write) as an entry in PNN’s Do The Write Thing contest. It's about a priest whose wife develops sch...

(6) jennyappleseed | about 1 month ago

(This is Chapter 1.) Liza is dreaming about the Kreb’s cycle, and osmosis - sodium and potassium molecules shuttle through the cell membrane like commuters at rush hour...

(4) awaitingbloom | 4 months ago

Usually, I don't have time. Well, to be fair to time who never seems to be around when we all need him most, I should say I choose to hang out with him in ways that avoid...

(1) dressupinhandmedowns | 5 months ago

“The Silver Hair-Lining” It was New Year’s Day, January 1, 2008, when my boyfriend discovered a gray hair on my head. “Hey old lady, look what I found”. I felt ...

(1) Dear Mari | 5 months ago

This was not going to be my next subject, but as I was searching through the "Groups" section of PNN, I saw the group called "Help! I love an addict" and felt like I had ...

(0) procomicdiva | 5 months ago

If only for a moment You were standing here What tales I would tell you What stories you would hear I would fill you in on details Things you missed while far away I'd ho...

(1) Hank | 5 months ago

How do you describe your life when you have a father, but does not act like one. Maybe because he had no role model when he was younger. His own father died when he was a...

(1) lynamber | 4 months ago

GENES I tried to explain genes to seven-year-old Maybelle. You are one-eighth ME, I told her. It probably would have helped had I cut a paper square into pieces– she do...

(1) lynamber | 29 days ago

OK, I'm rushing the season, but I just had a visit from my eldest great-granddaughter, a lovely sensitive, artistic little girl of 7, in whom I see the effects of the mes...

(1) mariposa | 5 months ago

Usually when someone dies it is for good, right? Well, that is what I thought until recently. There is this insane girl that I can't seem to get rid of. No matter what is...

(6) Sally G. | 5 months ago

“Look,” the teacher snapped, “we just went over this yesterday. And the day before. And the day before that. You will never understand this if you refuse to pay att...

(1) goodgirlbadthings | 5 months ago

Last night I did a very bad thing. A very bad thing.........with a.......pigeon. That's right I did. It all started when Scott decided that he would teach me how to ride ...

(2) leandrea78 | 5 months ago

I have always told myself that they don’t make men like my father anymore. My dad was always all about us kids. I will start off by saying that it takes a real man to r...

(2) Ms.Worry | 5 months ago

“Why do you care what other people think?” my husband asks me. I shrug. He continues to look at me, eyebrows raised. Our son sits on the floor between us, looking bac...

(1) lynamber | 2 months ago

If this looks familiar, it is, although much changed from the first article I put on PNN about being the oldest blogger. I found, to my delight, that a couple of my blogs...

(1) MoSi | 5 months ago

What is a Deadbeat Dad? According to Wikipedia a Deadbeat Dad (or parent I should say) is defined as ‘a n unrestricted parent treated equally who voluntarily chooses no...

(2) wearmanyhats | 5 months ago

"Can the boys camp out tonight in the backyard?" asked the Man Who Puts Up With Me. "I told them it was okay. Is there anything I should know about it?" "Fine with me," I...

(11) jennyappleseed | 5 months ago

Since my first-floor bedroom faced a shortcut that linked the bars and the Boston College fraternities, on the weekends I was accustomed to waking to the sound of a golde...

(3) wearmanyhats | 5 months ago

"It's been fifteen years since we had our first fight, and I found you sitting inside a closet," said my husband Theo, last night over the phone. I winced as I recalled t...

(1) Larissa Lytwyn | 5 months ago

Kate was rearranging the bed pillows a fourth time when her cell trilled. She snatched her phone from her pocket, struggled to keep her voice level as she said "hello." "...

(1) Shana | 5 months ago

About eight years ago, my husband’s grandfather died. He was an old man and had led a full life. It was a sad time, but expected. The unexpected part didn’t happen un...

(0) ama51662 | 5 months ago

Katherine sits in the chair next to her dresser, knees drawn to her chest as she slowly puffs on a cigarette. Smoke curls out the window and blows away in the frosty air ...

(0) sandra47 | 4 months ago

A Grandparent's Lament I am sitting on my front porch, taking a break. It is Sunday afternoon, and I have a few perennials sitting in a box on my porch, waiting to be pla...

(7) aboutface | 5 months ago

The sun scorched the pavement and the hot wind could tear the breath from your lungs. Through the heat induced ripples coming off the blacktop I could barely make out the...

(2) anncognito | 4 months ago

There was a tutu on the side of the highway. I saw it while riding in the passenger seat of my mother's car. It was upside down, discarded, lost along the side of the roa...

(1) goddess | 5 months ago

It's no wonder how her life got this confusing. Staring at the ceiling, Sapphire's mind raced with haunting memories of her past... It started when she was just 13 years ...

(3) MoSi | 3 months ago

So today I was challanged by a new friend to write a positive blog. I decided to post this because it is poisitive, kind of. It's about finding the positive in the negati...

(1) keenstacey | 4 months ago

Most of us are or have been in search of the fairytale. We go through relationships, some good, some bad. We grow from some, we shrink from others. We learn what we want ...

(0) snarkjacobs | 4 months ago

“…And lead us not, into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” I don’t remember when I started extending my palms to the heavens when I recited the “Our Father�...

(5) Kerri | 4 months ago

That summer was odd. I suppose that the summer following your first year of college is different from others, but still. I felt like my mom started being mad at me for le...

(9) Sally G. | 5 months ago

“I hate you and I wish you weren’t my sister” is what flowed from her mouth. The words hit the room with the velocity of a fired paint ball and splattered everyone ...

(0) bloggin2noggin | 4 months ago

Help Wanted Co-parent needed for witching hour a.k.a. suicide hour (hubby will not be home for at least 4 more hours and children are bouncing off the walls, or worse yet...

(1) Elle H. | 5 months ago

A continuing tidbit from the previous posting... "Happy Birthday Mabel!" My mom wakes me up. I look at the clock on my nightstand next to my bed. It's 9 a.m. "Ugh," I gro...

(1) bloggin2noggin | 4 months ago

At 37 is it possible to just all of sudden get tourettes, because I have been having some very strange experiences. This has been leaving me to wonder what the shitten he...

(1) bloggin2noggin | 4 months ago

So I am standing in the kitchen looking at all the dishes that need to be loaded into the dishwasher and just wishing there was a house cleaning fairy that would come ove...

(5) irshkate | 4 months ago

Look up to sky, stars I see Faerie's faces winking at me Bright against the velvet night Reveling in thier glowing light. Deep in the mossy forest I lay Night has moved o...

(2) Victoria | 5 months ago

He looked down at his watch to find there were only ten minutes left of the class. He didn't really need to check the time to know this. His heart had been racing and his...

(0) lynamber | 4 months ago

I like having silver hair. I like to look through the sparkling sunlit strands blown across my eyes by the wind. I may not like what it signifies, That I’m well down th...

(6) comictragedy | 5 months ago

So. We did this Philly Phreak thing. Seven of us showed up. And seven of us will be friends like.. forever. These are the most extraordinary women I've met in a long time...

(0) bloggin2noggin | 4 months ago

We went down the shore this weekend and of course we had to take my daughter to the boardwalk. She adores the boardwalk; what child does not love it? Within a matter of t...

(0) bloggin2noggin | 4 months ago

Why is it when I ask my daughter if she has to use the "potty or go to the bathroom" before we leave the house, or where ever we might be leaving she says no most of the ...

(0) keenstacey | 4 months ago

A young single mom for nearly five years, our bond is substantial. Anticipation of this day grew yearly through middle school, monthly the first two years of high school,...

(2) comictragedy | 5 months ago

I've never been much into the vanity thing. I figured I looked like I looked and that was, pretty much, that. I wasn't traffic stopping type beautiful; but, I wasn't turn...

(1) Katherine Illescas | 5 months ago

I’ve been meaning to write this for over a year, yet I’ve procrastinated probably because of a fear that I may not do it justice; that I may fail to convey in words w...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

I am going to write this as it comes to me. I apologize ahead of time as it won’t be easy to follow, but that is how it was. Perhaps you are supposed to be as confused ...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

After professing, I was expected to give “testimony”. This consisted of studying the Bible, which was done every day, and choosing a topic on which to speak during Su...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

We had been out of town visiting my grandparents for a few weeks and when we arrived home there was a surprise waiting for us. The woman sitting on the front porch of our...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

There were many unwritten “rules” that we followed in this thing we called a religion. We did not swear. We did not divorce and if we did, we most certainly never rem...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

If there was one thing I learned how to do by growing up in this way, it was to deny myself. We were expected to deny ourselves just about everything. The world, we were ...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

The summer before eighth grade was when I started to try to break free from this thing called “the truth”. This was all I had ever known and I had absolutely no idea ...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

I look back on my high school years now and I believe I have much to thank Marsha for. She helped me to become a more rounded person and I found that for me to belong to ...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

A kaleidoscope is a toy made of many colored flecks inside a looking glass. When you peer into the looking glass you can see a beautiful design made up of these brightly ...

(0) ama51662 | 5 months ago

I sit on the brink, not knowing if I should jump. Is the pain really so bad? I start to quiver and then I feel myself falling. I roll into myself, bracing for the impact ...

(0) lynamber | 29 days ago

When bloggers began to submit “relationship” blogs, I noticed that they all seemed to be about primary love relationships of one sort or another. That’s all well an...

(1) rukiddingme | 5 months ago

Santa Claus Do any of us really believe that once a year an ever-youthful octogenarian harnesses up his 8 reindeer and delivers toys all over the world, in 24 hours time?...

(2) katemcd | 5 months ago

The three-quarter empty bottle of tequila still sits on my bookshelf from Tuesday night. I haven't moved it yet, I think subconsciously I'm continuing to let it sit there...

(1) aboutface | 5 months ago

Avacado green carpets Clouds of clinging cigar smoke, Old men in the parlor proudly speaking of days gone by, When wars made men of them and made their women cry. Yellow ...

(2) The Jodi | 4 months ago

The only kink was in the naming. Mine, his and the lack of ours. The day after he proposed, Adam was the model progressive fiancé. He knew I wasn't going to change my na...

(1) aboutface | 5 months ago

Routabega, butternut, parsnip soup, My mother says it's good for me, but I think it looks like goop. She pulled the routabega's from the ground and sliced them up real th...

(1) goddess | 4 months ago

Only a couple of days until my rebirth and I have yet to figure out; "what's happening to me"? I have a pile of ill experiences crammed into my head. I have so many misfo...

(6) jennyappleseed | 5 months ago

I was different. That’s what he originally liked about me. I didn’t want a white picket life: a house, furniture, children. Maybe I wanted some of those things, but I...

(0) Victoria | 5 months ago

"Luu-cyy, breaaakfaaast." Lucy stretched and carefully opened one eye and then the other. She smiled to herself, as she gazed around the room. The tidy bedroom with the b...

(0) Katherine Illescas | 5 months ago

Sorry to disappoint you but this article is not about the various forms, such as kundalini, hatha, vinyasa, etc. It's about our personal experience of yoga. As I check my...

(3) comictragedy | 5 months ago

The power of words. Woven together, we're able to convey our thoughts; our dreams, our ideas. We can string them together as beads to make you laugh or cry, inform and de...

(2) Hali | 5 months ago

I bolted upright from a deep dream. My boyfriend, beside me, jolted out of sleep as something crashed to the floor. “What was that?” I asked. “It was probably just ...

(2) JessicaLee | 5 months ago

“I decided not to have it.” Her words cut through the thick air of the hot summer evening, piercing my heart. She said it simply, without emotion, but I know her well...

(2) Larissa Lytwyn | 4 months ago

Kate was rearranging the bed pillows a fourth time when her cell trilled. She snatched her phone from her pocket, struggled to keep her voice level as she said "hello." "...

(3) leandrea78 | 5 months ago

I was running across the beach with the hot sand almost burning the bottom of my feet as I run to catch the Frisbee. With relief on my feet I ran into the cool water as I...

(0) bloggin2noggin | 4 months ago

Need some help here, is it not a good idea to go into the director of early education at "Little Bits" preschool and punch her in the face? Alright, wait a minute before ...

(1) Summer Star | 5 months ago

She drove down the long quiet road, following the directions he gave her. She felt lost, like she may have gone too far or taken a wrong turn. She soon learned, after cal...

(6) motherofmany | 4 months ago

She awoke just like any other day sleeping beside her mother and her brother fitfully. The noise was sometimes overwhelming and she was afraid of the other occupants. She...

(0) shadowangel | 5 months ago

Why is it that the happy medium is so hard to find? In a perfect world, I would tell my child to do something and she would say "Yes,ma'am" and comply without grumbling a...

(4) leandrea78 | 5 months ago

My daughter called me today at work crying because she had just gotten off the phone with her father. He had the nerve to tell her that all she thinks about is herself. I...

(2) leandrea78 | 5 months ago

It was a gorgeous fall day, great day for a soccer game. Destiny and I wouldn’t make the bus from BOCES (where we took Cosmetology class) to our school to catch the bus...

(8) jennyappleseed | 4 months ago

I loved you the moment I put my hand on your mother’s stomach (the first pregnant belly I had ever touched) and felt one of your fetal appendages complain against my pa...

(2) Summer Star | about 1 month ago

(DISCLAIMER: THIS IS CHAPTER 2 OF A FICTION STORY I'M WRITING. ALL PARTS ARE PURE FICTION, INCLUDING SOME OF THE NAMES OF MAGAZINES AND RADIO STATIOS! PLEASE ENJOY THIS I...

(0) ama51662 | 5 months ago

At 5:30 Katherine finds herself unbolting the locks on her door to let Vicki in and her friend pushes her way through the apartment without a greeting and heads straight ...

(0) ama51662 | 5 months ago

Katherine doesn’t go into work on Thursday; instead she chooses to hang around her apartment with her thoughts circling her head like vultures picking at her mind const...

(1) goddess | 5 months ago

It's 11:53 pm on Wednesday, May 27th and I am trying my very best to get into a zone. I've learned quite alot over the past 3 years. Since I embarked on my spirtual journ...

(3) Tracy Lee Nash | 5 months ago

In July of 2007 my life changed in the blink of an eye. One day I was celebrating the news of my impending birth and the excitement of embracing another addition into our...

(7) fromthehipchick | 5 months ago

I know, I know -- they told us to study hard, do well on exams, show up early and stay late, work hard, network harder... and all our dreams of Jaguars and mansions and v...

(4) carmsblog | 5 months ago

I can remember him teaching me how to fish and work with wood. He was an all around "Handy Man" but could do things with wood that would make your head spin. When I was g...

(5) aboutface | 5 months ago

The internet caf was quiet that Saturday afternoon as she sat in the darkest corner she could find. The wig she wore itched and was uncomfortable. She had logged on to he...

(2) Katherine Illescas | 5 months ago

Man-a-fest one for yourself, even if you live in New York City. Yesterday I attended a well-being fair. It was fun, experienced the usual product and service trials, and ...

(1) goddess | 4 months ago

Beer Hop by Sherize Kharyzma Urquhart It's 9 pm on Saturday evening, and I've been called upon to bar hop in NYC. Now before you get green with envy, let me start out by ...

(3) shadowangel | 5 months ago

I am sleeping, though not soundly. These days, I am in a state of consciousness that is half sleep due to sheer fatigue and half awake because of fear. The fear is for my...

(3) amandagreen | 4 months ago

If the world's a stage, then I'd like to tap the mic and ask, "Is this thing on?" College isn't what it was supposed to be. I'm caught between being alone and accepting i...

(0) Diabolique Belle | 4 months ago

There are a group of Elders that sit on the porch. The oldest woman sits in a rocking chair and her wrinkled hands hold the sides. Suddenly, she looks around and the peop...

(0) lynamber | 4 months ago

My life has been filled with incredible, memorable moments and events. All the usual family highlights were there–marriages, births, grandchildren’s and great-grandch...

(0) lynamber | 4 months ago

I know that the internet is an enchantress, a siren, a sorceress, a Circe, a Lorelei–calling us into her grasp. For years, I resisted the pleas of my children and frien...

(1) lynamber | 4 months ago

I always assumed that I’d grieve deeply if my ex-husband pre-deceased me: for the man I loved for 20 plus years; for the man who was my first and only love for all of t...

(1) J. A. Frischman | 4 days ago

Sockopia Lest ye yourself be such the rarest of rarities, so being that of an individual who has himself no doubt inadvertently witnessed the same inexplicable incident t...

(2) comictragedy | 4 months ago

I'm not allowed to owe a gun. It's not like I've been convicted of a felony.. plea bargin took care of that.. and.. I'm not completely mentally unstable (yet) but.. evide...

(7) comictragedy | 4 months ago

First steps. I remember them like they were yesterday. Those unsteady feet moving her little body from one location to the next. From couch to table. From table to chair....

(0) bloggin2noggin | 4 months ago

At 6:17 this morning I heard "Mommmmmmmyyyyy" with such gusto in my daughter Abby's (a.k.a Little Bits) voice I rushed in to see if everything was okay. I thought maybe s...

(0) bloggin2noggin | 4 months ago

Little Bits a.k.a my daughter has ear tubes. In 2006 at the recommendation of the best ENT from the number 0ne children's hospital in the country (CHOP also referred to a...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

I told Annie I would write about this. So, here is a start. Annonymous, as it must be, for safety and sanity and family that still "belongs". This time of year has always...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

When I say everything changed, I am not kidding. We moved several hundred miles from the town I had lived in for the past few years and my father rented a large, white, h...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

When I arrived home I went straight to bed. I was exhausted and cold and upset and all my broken heart wanted was the oblivion of sleep. The dream came to me some time ar...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

I slept late, later than usual. I dozed off and on throughout the morning refusing to get out of bed. It was Saturday and I didn’t have to get up. My mother usually wok...

(2) leandrea78 | 5 months ago

DAY AT THE FAIR Written by: LeaAnn Fuller Waiting in line to ride the ferris wheel the noise of the fair goers surrounds you. You hear the laughing of everyone as they bo...

(2) procomicdiva | 21 days ago

On their broken blistered feet On their whipped and weary backs I walked to freedom, On their callused hands And battered souls I walked to civil rights, On their blood B...

(1) DomesticallyDisabled | 5 months ago

As a first time mom, I had all the same worries that any other first time mom has. Will I be able to tell what my child needs and when? Will my child be healthy? Will I b...

(4) annie | 5 months ago

About the same time as my older sister Manny became a celebrity for growing a 44D cup, I earned my own notoriety by defending our neighbor, Buddy Clarke. It was the summe...

(1) chriscancook | 5 months ago

It's closing time now and the doors open Releasing me to a new version of my beloved city I hit the streets in silence Moving freely among the breed of souls opening thei...

(3) otherstuff | 5 months ago

Right now we are still in a motel room. But when we have to sleep in the car, I usually right in my diary all night. Sometimes I will make up silly little poems, dumb poe...

(0) therecessionista | 5 months ago

So, as you all know... I have recently moved. As par for the course with anyone who moves... you start to purchase new things: some of them are needs, others are absolute...

(2) Hali | 5 months ago

I moved in with my boyfriend’s family a few weeks ago. The house is this huge old Southern home that was built in the early 1900s. It’s a grand house. It has huge dee...

(3) The Absurd | 4 months ago

Today, in the world of the absurd, I spent my lunch hour standing in line at a deli trying to avoid eye contact with a very weird little man named Oscar. Instead of stand...

(1) procomicdiva | 4 days ago

In the stillness of your arms as we lay together satiated bathed in loves afterglow. I feel the safety therein & know that I have found forever's place. You kiss my f...

(1) Victoria | 5 months ago

"Good morning! I'm Dirk Dashing and today's program is taking place in Normalville. Our contestant today is Mrs. Jennifer Smith. Jennifer, why don't you tell us a bit abo...

(0) therecessionista | 5 months ago

So for this week's confessional, I must begin by saying that: Those who said that there is no such thing as a free lunch have obviously not been paying close enough atten...

(1) mariposa | 5 months ago

Incredibly divine Ultimately refined With great thoughts and aspirations Growing hearts absorbed by devastation Futures filled with soulful inspiration Families educating...

(1) motherofmany | 4 months ago

On June 6th I had the priveledge of meeting some really awesome women. I had the pleasure of meeting the lovely ladies of PNN and the wonderful inspiring women of the Red...

(4) Kerri | 5 months ago

Heinous. Awful. Horrendous. These are just three of the words used to describe the DMV. I had to go to the DMV to get my new license and register my car. I was a little l...

(0) bloggin2noggin | 4 months ago

I woke up, well actually Little Bits woke me up this morning by touching my face and saying, "time to wake up, time to wake up" and then when I didn't jump right out of b...

(0) ama51662 | 5 months ago

Charles Stockworth, CEO of Stockworth Technologies, enters the elevator on the 12 th floor after another crazy day at the office. As the elevator descends he thinks about...

(4) chriscancook | 5 months ago

"Patience is a virtue," I mutter as my order printer spits out tickets on yet another off-to-the-races Saturday night. It's early for me, 7:30 maybe, and my coworkers in ...

(1) Elle H. | 5 months ago

Part of a young adult fantasy novel... At eleven- years-old I realize that I am not like other kids my age. I go to school, hang out with my friends, and do homework. But...

(1) writing | 5 months ago

She handed over her ticket to the man at the door and he checked off her name. “Excuse me,” she asked him, her voice shaky, “where do I sit please?” He leered at ...

(0) ama51662 | 5 months ago

Katherine heads to the waiting area of the ICU unit to find Marty's wife Tina gazing out the window into the dark city below. “Tina.” “Oh God, Katherine,” Tina sa...

(0) ama51662 | 5 months ago

Grace and Katherine drive home through the subsiding rain. Grace hasn’t said a word since they left and Katherine is worried about her daughter’s reaction, since Grac...

(5) chriscancook | 4 months ago

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to have lunch with one of my dearest friends from college. Getting the chance to see her in person is always a spur of the moment unde...

(0) bloggin2noggin | 4 months ago

I have a burning question that I can not seem to get the answer to from the pint sized ceo in our house. I have searched high and low for her hiding spot and do not seem ...

(5) fromthehipchick | 5 months ago

PNN is made of women like ComicTragedy and MotherofMany, women who are mothers and sisters and aunts and friends. Women who pull together sponsors and donations and non-p...

(1) motherofmany | 4 months ago

Our 24 year old niece is living home again and it's so full of drama. We have raised her since she was 15. She has moved out 2x and back again she is! Oh yes I cried the ...

(3) The Absurd | 4 months ago

Every day there was a rush to see who could get to the bus stop first. We would pack up our backpacks and race out the door, fifteen minutes earlier than we needed to. "F...

(0) freetobe | 4 months ago

Many of us as adults realize that our preteen and teen years are very confusing. This thing in my life called religion seemed to confuse those years even more for me. It ...

(1) Gretchen Lancour | 3 months ago

Grandpa snowed the cops and I helped. He took my cousin and I to The Dayton International Air & Trade Show. It was late July in Ohio; heat shimmered off metal and pav...

(4) hannahbanana | 5 months ago

If you're interested, Stuart is a Switch. That means he will be both a Bottom and a Top. A female Dominant is called a Domme (dahm-AYE), Mistress, Lady or any other name ...

(2) bloggin2noggin | 4 months ago

I had a great mommy moment tonight and I was very proud of myself, I must admit. Little Bits and I went to the market today, and of course she picked up the pink applesau...

(14) annie | 5 months ago

When I was twelve, my best friend Katie McGuire lost her mother in a freak accident. The newspaper said she hopped a train and froze to death in a boxcar full of Tyson ch...

(4) jendaniele | 4 months ago

My husband and I recently moved to a lovely new neighborhood – a lot nicer than we’re used to. This is a place where people look out for each other’s well-being. Th...

(3) Ms.Worry | 5 months ago

Surely God is weeping right now; it is that kind of day—the rain falling from the sky relentlessly, soaking the trees, the grass, the pavement. It's impossible to see w...