I pulled into the driveway and froze. My kids were sitting on the porch, suitcases at their feet, eyes full of confusion.“What’s going on?” I asked, rushing over.jake, only ten, looked at me nervously. “You told us to,” he whispered.“Told you what?” My heart pounded.He handed me his phone. The message read: This is your… CONTINUE READING »
My stomach dropped. I hadn’t sent it. Before I could process, a car pulled in. My ex-husband, Lewis, stepped out, smug as ever.“Well, well,” he sneered. “Leaving them outside like this? Great parenting. Maybe they should be with me.”I stood firm, trembling inside. “You lost custody for a reason. Stop manipulating them.”He smirked.
“Maybe that was a mistake.”Jake and Emily, my little girl clutching her stuffed rabbit, started crying. “Please stop fighting!” Jake begged. The sight of their tears cut deeper than anything Lewis could say.When he finally drove off, I pulled my kids close, silently vowing he’d never win. He wasn’t just after custody — he was… CONTINUE READING »
Calmly, I laid out the evidence. She wanted to believe his lies, but as she read, I watched doubt creep into her eyes.Weeks later, word spread their relationship was falling apart. His own web of lies was choking him.I didn’t destroy him — the truth did. And for me, that was enough. My children stayed… CONTINUE READING »
During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director what the criterion was which defined whether or not a patient should be institutionalized. “Well!” said the Director. “We fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty… CONTINUE READING »
“No.” said the Director. “A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a room with or without a view?” A doctor walks into a room full of patients at a mental institution, takes out a pen, and draws a door on the wall. He then tells all the patients that whoever wants to… CONTINUE READING »
The doctor thinks he must have been cured. He then asks the patient why he did not rush to the door, and the patient whispers, “They don’t know that I’m the one who has the key.” Two men are in a lunatic asylum and one night, they decide they don’t like living in an asylum any… CONTINUE READING »
The second man immediately spots the problem with this and shakes his head. “What do you think I am? Crazy? You’d turn it off when I was half way across!” Jim and Edna are both mental patients. One day Jim jumps into the swimming pool but, doesn’t come up for air. Quick as a flash,… CONTINUE READING »
The officers carefully began to remove the pristine laminate boards, gingerly lifting each piece to preserve the flooring for reinstallation. The mother, initially skeptical, watched in growing concern as they worked. The girl, gripping her teddy bear as if it were her only lifeline, stood wide-eyed, a strange mix of anxiety and certainty etched onto… CONTINUE READING »
It was then that they uncovered an unexpected and chilling sight. Beneath the floorboards, wrapped meticulously in a thick, grimy tarp, lay the unmistakable outline of a human figure. The room seemed to hold its breath as the officers carefully peeled back the tarp, revealing what appeared to be the decomposed remains of a man…. CONTINUE READING »