humanity

For better or for worse, relationships reveal the core of the human condition.

Waving Good-Bye
There's a little thrift store I like to go to on an obscure street in my neighborhood. I sometimes find neat little trinkets, old historic photographs, ornate jewelry. I'm good friends with some of the workers, like Jillian.
By Rory Milligan5 years ago in Humans
The Little Black Book
It was a summer day, much like any other. The sun awoke the birds at approximately the same time I managed to fall asleep, and today that just happened to piss me off. The wrong side of the bed had been upending me for weeks now, and something about today felt like the final straw. I couldn’t help but grunt, “Forget it!” to myself, as I got back out of bed to distract myself with something useless.
By Kevin Faulkner5 years ago in Humans
Sommerlied
I think back to my younger days quite often now, back to the time when my soul's very essence was changed. Who would’ve guessed that one summer could change your life forever…
By Rajeeyah S. Muhammad5 years ago in Humans
Testing Good Fortune
It’s the middle of August in Chicago and Scott’s furiously staring at the car in front of him, but his anger isn't directed at the sweltering heat and traffic congestion, though they certainly aren’t helping to improve matters. He's angry at that damned brat at the office who started no more than a year ago and has stolen the lead role for a big audit in D.C. Scott works for an IT audit firm and their biggest client recently acquired a new company. They are due for their first audit to ensure they are properly aligning to the client’s policies and best practices. Scott deserved that lead role, not Miguel. He’s approaching his 14th year with the company and has worked too damn hard to let some insufferable frat boy overtake him.
By Ashley Gomez5 years ago in Humans
$20,000 worth of Humor
$20,000 worth of Humor Laughter can be Priceless Jake quickly turned to another random page and read for a few seconds, then cracked up again, laughing uncontrollably in front of everyone in the over packed rush hour subway train. Then the guy dropped him again, he read out loud, then burst out laughing again. Ha! aaaaaaaaaaaaah! People were now staring at him, some were giving him dirty looks, some were starting to laugh with him, and some were just trying to see what was so funny. Jake was thinking he had never heard such hilarious jokes or stories before. These have to be some comedian’s best material he thought as he turned another page.
By Debbie Powell5 years ago in Humans
Two as One.
When I first showed interest in religion my family was no longer practicing Mormons. I was encouraged and told that before I could claim to be anything or follow something I needed to educate myself on it, read on it, listen to people within the faith, and more.
By Misha Alsleben5 years ago in Humans
The Bloody Landing
I huffed up the grand staircase after work at the library and a stop at the market, my giant reusable shopping bag heavy on my shoulder. I always felt relieved that I lived in one of the two apartments on the first landing in my elevator-free building at moments like these. I was rummaging in my pocket for my keys when I reached the landing and practically didn’t register the pool of fresh blood on the parquet.
By Jessica Knauss5 years ago in Humans
What's It Like To Become A "Sworn Virgin"
Montenegro can be a hard place to live — for women. Montenegro is known for its highly patriarchal society. In 1880, a correspondent of The New York Times wrote: “The Montenegrin woman takes an equal share of labour with the man at field-work, and she does all the carrying. ”
By Oberon Von Phillipsdorf5 years ago in Humans
Orchestra puzzles
“Attention! Attention!” The conductor, Marc Ormond rapped his baton on the music stand trying to get people settled. The orchestra took their seats and the talking stopped after a moment. “As you know, our benefactor Albert Maynard passed this week, may God rest his soul. He has been good to us here in Camden for many years and was present for almost every show.” People nodded. “We have his son Brian Maynard here to talk to us, please give him your attention.”
By Angie Ferguson5 years ago in Humans
A BLEEDING HEART
It was another day of sitting in the living room of the almost 40-year-old house. The photographs framed on the wall were a testament to the people that she had had the privilege of meeting throughout the years. She scanned the familiar, yet still intriguing, photographs and got lost in the photograph of the face of a young girl with beautiful brown eyes speckled with gold. She had a mischievous, yet shy smile. Anne smiled to herself. “The beginning of everything,” she thought. She grabbed the very top small black note book off of the stack of moleskine notebooks on the shelf. Each notebook bore testament to her travels and the endeavors she had made to make the world a little bit of a better place.
By Lesley Raymond5 years ago in Humans
The Leader, The Know it All, The Lone Wolf
Everything has to be completed, on time, no cutting corners, no passing the buck. Therefore I have to do it on my own.
By Shahnee Hunter5 years ago in Humans
The Little Black Book
Katrina’s life was split between being an only child, raised in a God loving home to then swiftly becoming an orphan. She barely remembered the word of God as told to her by her grandmother many years ago. Grandma passed away when she was eight years old. Katrina’s parents were taken from her by a drunk driver in a car accident when she was ten. She had no other family so she became a ward of the state at that time.
By Crystal Bickford5 years ago in Humans