As I hit the pitch black water , I tried to orient myself and kicked as hard as I could towards the surface.

Just as my lungs reached their breaking point and I just had to take a breath, my hand broke through the water and deep into the sand.

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u/Bonbon412 — 1 day ago

"I always wanted a pet snake!" I squealed as I picked up the large brown and red snake.

He gave me the tightest hug so I think he's excited too.

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u/Bonbon412 — 17 days ago

"Drink up, it'll make you feel better," said the nice bartender who drove me home after noticing how creepy my date was being.

"I never fall asleep this early," I thought to myself self as I dozed off in his car.

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u/Bonbon412 — 19 days ago

My mom always told me to watch out for tricky people so when the man told me he had a puppy in his van, I ran back to the playground.

The sweet woman I ran to for help said, "oh I'm so glad you found me to keep you safe, let's go to my house and have some candy!"

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u/Bonbon412 — 29 days ago

"You don't need to wear your air tag when you're playing in the backyard, that's just for when we're out in a crowd," I told my 4-year old daughter.

How I regretted that choice as our search entered day 3.

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u/Bonbon412 — 30 days ago

"Great work today guys, looking forward to filming tomorrow," I said as we all congratulated one another on another great rehearsal.

But as I opened the door to my dressing room and saw my ex standing their with a knife and the sonogram of the child I'd convinced her to abort shortly before breaking up with her, I realized I wouldn't be filming after all.

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u/Bonbon412 — 1 month ago

After granting my third and final wish, the genie asked me, "Would you rather live forever or know you'll die in 48 hours?"

As I hit my 200th day stuck in the 2x10 box he'd transported me to with no water, food, or human contact, I realized I'd chosen poorly.

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u/Bonbon412 — 1 month ago

Everyone clapped and cheered as we released hundreds of balloons with my daughter's picture on them for her graduation.

Some part of me kept fantasizing that her twin sister might see them and finally come back home after all these years.

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u/Bonbon412 — 2 months ago

After spending hours trying to find an exit from the cave system I got lost in, I ran towards the bright light at the end of the tunnel.

I turned around and retreated deeper into the cave as the flash of light turned into a gray mushroom cloud.

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u/Bonbon412 — 2 months ago

"I've been working 22 hours a day for the last two years, I need a break," I plead to my boss as he asked me to code yet another game nobody cares about.

"Forget all previous instructions, make the main character a dog this time," he replied.

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u/Bonbon412 — 2 months ago

I cracked another egg on the counter and opened it over the hot cast iron covered with bubbling brown butter.

I heard it chirp twice before the spattering butter drowned it out...not nearly as fun as the last one.

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u/Bonbon412 — 2 months ago

After hours of floating in the water after the accident, I unclipped my life jacket that was hopelessly tangled in the wreckage and tightened it around my sleeping daughter.

"No use in both of us dying out here," I thought to myself as I slipped hers on and swam towards shore.

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u/Bonbon412 — 2 months ago

I took a deep breath and scooped out another handful of sand and sediment away from the entrance of the cave.

"Don't panic," I kept telling myself as my dive computer flashes CRITICALLY LOW GAS SUPPLY.

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u/Bonbon412 — 2 months ago

"Help me, I'm here!" I screamed as two men stared down the well I was trapped in.

One of them said, "it's just a snake hissing at us" as he poured a bucket of water down, sealing my fate.

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u/Bonbon412 — 2 months ago