Author: chosama

My parents always put holiday lottery tickets on our Christmas tree for each of us 4 kids. One year I won $5,000! I was pregnant and expecting the first baby born among…

My parents and I did 23andMe DNA tests. They each received a panicked message from a woman on the other side of the world who had matched as their daughter. When I…

I was in line at the supermarket. A guy with a carton of milk got right in front of me. He literally said nothing at all. I grabbed his milk and held…

One evening, a lady came in holding a baby tightly wrapped in an old blanket. She asked for a crib, but I told her we didn’t have one. She simply said, “Ok,”…

I babysat for a family and the kids would always ask for a “cool cup”, but I had no clue what it was. They asked for them constantly, but were too little…

My friend works in a hospital. One night, he hears a nurse shouting for help, as a patient was going into cardiac arrest. So he runs down a hallway and a man…

I was assigned the task of organizing the family reunion, hoping to reconnect with my long-lost cousin. When I finally reached out, my aunt insisted I never mention her daughter’s troubled past….

One night, I overheard my grandma talking on the phone. She was saying things like, “She’s ruining his life,” and “I told him to leave her, but he won’t listen.” It took…

At 13, I was so poor, I never had lunch. A classmate noticed and started bringing me food every day. That same year, she vanished and I never saw her again. 15…

My grandma used to drive me out to a lake and let me dig for rocks. I often found beautiful polished stones of every different color. At my cousin’s wedding, when I…