True Story

Do you even know?
By Ducksnowls DNO in True Story | Reads: 929 | Likes: 0
Depression, do you even know what it is? It is a straightforward word with a simple meaning yet it is widely used erroneously. Depression does NOT mean sadness. It is nowhere close to it. People are using this term so freely that everyone starts to neglect the idea of what it actually means. People   Read More...
Published on Jul 6,2017 11:44 PM
Thicker Than Water
By Ng Jing Kang in True Story | Reads: 300 | Likes: 0
I was overwhelmed as I stood there. Scarlet liquid flowed copiously from my father’s arm, ignoring my fervent wishes for their nonexistence. It spurted, almost surreally, onto his bedroom’s white marble tiles, in sharp, visceral contrast. Red ink on paper. Splotches which were strangely   Read More...
Published on Jul 7,2017 07:15 AM
The horror that was Syonan-to
By Low Chem Poo in True Story | Reads: 10,914 | Likes: 0
"Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge."   That is a succinct quote of Isreali politician Meir Kahane. His rightwing views may be anathemic to democratic values, but the quote is the reality of state of nations through  Read More...
Published on Jul 8,2017 11:41 AM
Clink
By Cheeri Leo in True Story | Reads: 396 | Likes: 0
“Ah Gor, I really can’t be at home today to take care of Tay Ma! I’m on my way to a friend’s wedding dinner! I’ve reminded you to keep this date free ages ago, how can you be so flippant about the situation? I've been taking care of Tay Ma for the past 6 nights!”   Read More...
Published on Jul 9,2017 01:08 AM
Women's Diaries
By Bae Huey in True Story | Reads: 581 | Likes: 0
Diary Entry 1 - Sidney “Well, aren’t you the lucky one?” She smiled, looked away from their gazes and into the huge, ornamental mirror across the room. A woman in her early thirties, clad from head to toe in designer clothing, sitting cross-legged in a posh cafe surrounded by her b  Read More...
Published on Jul 9,2017 01:21 AM
A Love Letter to My Homes
By Kimberly Wong in True Story | Reads: 7,070 | Likes: 0
August 2015             I stick out like a sore thumb, and I know it.             It’s the first day of orientation, and all the freshmen and orientation leaders are gathered on the lu  Read More...
Published on Jul 9,2017 05:28 AM
Touch of God
By iris loh in True Story | Reads: 333 | Likes: 0
This letter is a testimony of how God gives me the grace of total conversion. On 27th June 1981, a child was born as Anne. It was the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. This I do not know only until at a later age. During my childhood years, just as Archbishop in the Conversion Experience Retrea  Read More...
Published on Jul 11,2017 05:30 PM
Searching for 'The Voice' in my dream
By Sunflower Chong in True Story | Reads: 1,800 | Likes: 0
My childhood was not rosy coming from a poor family in the 60's. I have the desire to help people living out a Cinderella existence with my parents and five brothers and a sister. I believed my childhood was scarred by unfair treatment, which always left me asking ‘Why?’ My fancies ofte  Read More...
Published on Jul 12,2017 07:35 AM
Dinner Date with Solitude
By Aishwarya Bhargav in True Story | Reads: 376 | Likes: 0
‘Not again’ she said as her Best Friend turned down her invitation for dinner. I can’t survive another day alone she thought. She did not want to eat and her hunger seemed to vanish every time she did not have company for dinner. Her stomach began to growl and she knew that she cou  Read More...
Published on Jul 13,2017 01:01 AM
(Oral) Commentary
By Max Maximus in True Story | Reads: 303 | Likes: 0
This story contains hints of censored profanity. Viewer discretion is advised. ___________________________________________________________________ 1.15pm “So foul and fair a day I have not se-”   I put my earphones on to shut off the voice of Macbeth in my head, as it’s been   Read More...
Published on Jul 14,2017 01:55 PM
The Boy Who Ran
By Azrael Tseng in True Story | Reads: 408 | Likes: 0
“What’re you doing out so late at night?” the pot-bellied man in a singlet and sarong asked as he plonked himself next to me at the bus-stop. Like many Indians, he had skin a different shade of night and a thick moustache, but no turban like my friend Inderjit Singh. I didn’t  Read More...
Published on Jul 15,2017 09:04 PM
The Secret Behind The Smile
By rosas in True Story | Reads: 369 | Likes: 0
"I can't breath and its feels like I am drowning,5 seconds to 1 seconds I am dying" tiktak tiktak the alarm clock rang,I woke up and surprise that I'm still alive and I'm breathing I thought I've drowned in a deep sea,but that is just a dream,its A nightmare Oh God thank's goodness I'm alive. I hav  Read More...
Published on Jul 17,2017 01:37 PM
The Secret Behind The Smile
By rosas in True Story | Reads: 407 | Likes: 0
"I can't breath and its feels like I am drowning,5 seconds to 1 seconds I am dying" tiktak tiktak the alarm clock rang,I woke up and surprise that I'm still alive and I'm breathing I thought I've drowned in a deep sea,but that is just a dream,its A nightmare Oh God thank's goodness I'm alive. I hav  Read More...
Published on Jul 17,2017 01:37 PM
RECOVERY
By Felicia Tan in True Story | Reads: 1,022 | Likes: 0
"Kerry! Get up!" Head pounding like a truck just ran over him and nails drilling into his eyeballs, Kerry pulled his face up from his pillow that smelled like vomit, sweat and everything vile. "Huh?" He was disorientated from the loud noise all over, insulting his eardrums. His mouth felt dry with w  Read More...
Published on Jul 18,2017 01:07 PM
The Both of us
By Fern in True Story | Reads: 331 | Likes: 0
"I'm going overseas." I looked up in a haze at the man standing in front of me. The grown up version of the little boy I once knew. The weight of my words hung heavily around us.T "Why?" he whispered coarsely. He sat there lost in the torrent vortex of my words. A man forever tormented by a past tha  Read More...
Published on Jul 19,2017 04:24 PM
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