Luke Hartwick
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I Turned My Phone On This Morning To A Series Of Crazy Texts From My Roommate
I kept knocking on his door, but it was locked and he wasn’t replying. But he doesn’t usually lock his bedroom door when he leaves...
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I Took Part In A Psychology Experiment For Some Extra Christmas Money (And I Regret It)
That excitement is what helped me to skip over all of the disclaimers in the contract that Dr. Phelps put before me. Since that day, I've re-read the contract a hundred times, sick at the thought of what I overlooked.
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My Son Wrote Something Horrifying For His Class And Now I’m In Trouble With His School For It
When Caden's teacher asked me to come in for a parent-teacher conference, I figured she was going to sing his praises as a self-reliant, good kid. But instead, she just gestured for me to sit in a tiny, plastic chair and proceeded to lay a spiral notebook on the desk in front of me, without…
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I Didn’t See My Best Friend’s Mysterious Last Email Until Days After He Took His Own Life
The realization was like a knife in my chest. We used to always get into mysteries with each other when we were younger. If I was there, I would absolutely have gone with them. But then what?
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I Found Some Incredibly Disturbing Things In My Son’s Browser History
I felt like I had this reasonable parenting thing down...until I saw what was on his browser history. Then I lost it.
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My Best Friend Moved In And Turned My Life Into A Complete Nightmare
I won't blame you if you think this is fiction.
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I’ve Been Hearing Voices Around My House Ever Since My Wife Killed Herself
"Daddy likes to drink," she tells her doll. "And I like to pour him drinks."
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I’m A Guy And A Virgin, But I’m At The Hospital Right Now And Doctors Are Telling Me I’m Pregnant
They told me I had a hernia at first.
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I Found Out On My 15th Birthday Why My Family Constantly Moved From State To State
Being the new kid in school sucks. I thought by now I would have been used to it, because of all the moving my family has done over the years. But I guess there is no getting used to the stares and the condescending curiosities. Sometimes I wonder if they know my secret. Can they…
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My Friend Told Me He Wanted To Become A Skin-Walker
"I've been thinking a lot lately," he said one day when we were walking home from the bus stop. "About the ánt’įįhnii."
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I Worked For A Crisis Hotline In Arizona, But I Had To Quit After This Peculiar Incident
For a while all I did was field calls, like the other operators. But then I started realizing that some of these people were calling from only a few blocks away from me.
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I Discovered The Dark, Sick Secret My Parents Have Been Hiding In The Basement
Now, when I think back to the excuses my parents used to make, I feel like an idiot.
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Our Baby Mysteriously Disappeared, But My Wife Says She Can Still Hear Her Crying Through The Baby Monitor
I should have known something was off by the puzzled looks on the police officers' faces as my wife recounted everything that had happened.
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The Strangest Text Message I’ve Ever Received
I had gotten texts from people with the wrong number in the past and never thought twice about telling them so and moving on with my life. But this time was different, because this time I was lonely.
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I Finally Found Out Why My Foster Parents Asked Me Never To Contact My Biological Mother
I remember often asking about my mother. Along with all of my other uncertainties, there was the lingering question of why I could never see her. I always got the same answer, "You’re too young to understand, Luke."
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This Is The Terrifying Reason Why I Will Not Babysit Anymore
Here's something I don't advertise on my SitterCity profile: I hate children. But I do love video games and easy money, so that makes for a pretty smooth operation when it comes to taking care of other people's kids for a few hours.
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My Roommate And I Bid And Won A Storage Locker For Cheap. We Never Expected To Come This Close To Dying After We Bought It.
I have to confess, I love those shows on television about buying storage units and hunting through antiques, looking for something valuable. I've always had a fascination with old things and it seems like a relatively easy way to make some extra money. I imagined it must be almost like a treasure hunt. I imagined…
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I Found A Note Hidden Inside This Hollowed-Out Book From A State Prison
Property of San Quentin State Prison.