Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: This story isn't mine, it's my parents, but it's a pretty crazy small world story, so it's worth sharing. The year is 2003 and my parents are almost 5000 miles from home. They are in a tiny town in northern Italy with two other couples from their book gr ....


Comment preview: I was born without hearing in my left ear and my left ear was attached to different parts of my left cheek, resulting in many surgeries throughout my childhood. Some to give me an ear to look "normal" and many to restore hearing. I have about 30-40% hearin ....


Comment preview: Ok I'll give this a shot. I'm at a friend's house. I met this friend after I moved far away from my hometown, no relation to my life back home at all. She was one of my "new friends" that I did not carry with my from the place I grew up, that I met after ....


Comment preview: I'm sorry if you've read my story before. If you like I have another one about defeating a monster in Denmark. So I was on a bus in Guatemala when I met Eloy, the skydiving Panamanian on his was to the North Pole with an oil tycoon on a "Hommer" expedition ....


Comment preview: Hah, sure. So I was on a bus in Guatemala when I met Eloy, the skydiving Panamanian on his was to the North Pole with an oil tycoon on a "Hommer" expedition (Hummer). He told me he had just been in Costa Rica and if I meet an Englishman called John Chapman ....