“Once I was free from the marriage, I had nothing to fall back on.”
Michigan | February 2005 to October 2007 | By NATALIE M.

“Charlotte blurted out her horrible secret - she was being sexually harassed by one of the programmers.”
Sacramento, California | 1990 | By JORDAN DAKOTA

“Josephine Tate had no idea who she was or why she was being surrounded by a hoard of screaming miniature humans.”
San Francisco, California | 2002| By LAURIE GAUGUIN

#1: Nursing a Stereotype | By BOOMER SPITZER
#2: Not by the Book | By ALYCE DEVEAU

“Nobody wanted to talk to her face-to-face. The awkwardness was too unbearable.”
Salem, Oregon | 2003 to 2006 | By CHIARA ANGELLINI

“I would play the kill me game. I picked up every criminal I could find.”
Baltimore, Maryland | 1992 to 1993 | By TOM D’ANTONI

“The sky drips incessantly, littering red-dirt roads with trash, trickling sewage, and swimming diseases. I’m getting thinner, and my hair is falling out.”
Summer of 2007 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | By AILEA SNELLER

“A man was killed, another man will most likely be brutalized in prison … and now the rest of us will go about our lives.”
January 2007 | Clarion, Pennsylvania | By D. CURTIS ALDRICH

“Instinctively, my right hand went to the .357 weighing heavily on my sweat-covered holster.”
2000 | Southwest Florida | By MARGRET RAVEN

“To appear naked on television, or not to appear naked on television? It’s the most life-altering decision I’ve made to date.”
1992 to 2007 | New York and Vermont | By ARIEL