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: My biological father kidnapped me. My mother didn't know where I was for my first birthday. She called the cops, hired a private detective, and got his comas involved since they were military. The best I can piece together is he had taken me to a nannies h ....


Comment preview: OK, so we took a cruise to Cabo. I love my brother but he can be kind of an idiot. In Cabo he was flashing money everywhere. He might as well have worn a t-shirt that said, "Rob me". We rented some jet skiis, that he paid for by pulling out a huge wad of c ....


Comment preview: So I dunno if this is like having it actually against my head but still equally traumitizing. I was kidnapped when I was 9 from minnesota, taken into mexico. Stopped by mexican military and my kidnapper wasnt allowed to go any further about 10 mexicans wit ....


Comment preview: My Mom kidnapped me from my Dad. I was 3, they were separated, and I was with my Dad. She set up a meeting at a hotel to just get to see me for a while. My Mom fed me a snickers bar and I got all messy, so my uncle took me to the bathroom to clean me up. O ....


Comment preview: I thought of this episode when I woke up from a nightmare this morning. I was kidnapped by some guy who was holding me hostage at his house. while he was distracted I pulled out my iphone which he didn't realize I had, and started texting people for help. ....


Comment preview: **TL;DR: Mother and father both kidnapped my sister and me. My childhood was pretty traumatic.** My mother kidnapped me and my sister when I was very young... I believe I was 8 (she was 6). We lived with my aunt and uncle at the time, who were given cust ....


Comment preview: I was kidnapped by a drunk driver when 21. He wouldn't let me out of the car, locked all the doors and kept running through stop signs when I was trying to get out. We ended up getting stuck at a red light and I saw my chance. Right as we stopped I threw m ....


Comment preview: 4:20 am (before enhanced 9-1-1 existed, it just rang to the PSAP with no address/caller ID info) Me "9-1-1, what is your emergency?" Old female voice whispering "I've been kidnapped." Me "What? Where are you, ma'am?" F still whispering "Save me." Me "Ma'am ....


Comment preview: I remember making a comment on AskReddit about how my parents had divorced before I was born and I'd never met my father or anyone on my father's side of the family. The immediate response was that my mom had probably kidnapped me and my poor father was ou ....


Comment preview: I was young, about 6 or 7 years old. My dad took me to the store to buy my mom some cold medicine. While dad was talking to the pharmacist, I wandered over to the comic section of the store, but I made sure I wasn't too far to where I couldn't see my dad, ....


Comment preview: "TIFU By saving a drowning child." A few years ago, I was out boating with my dad when his friend spotted a kid floating along in the water. We pulled him onto our boat, and I slapped him awake after I stole his shiny gold necklace. Fast forward to recent ....


Comment preview: WHOA WHOA WHOA!!! FINALLY IT IS MY TIME TO SHINE!! DO I HAVE A STORY TO TELL YOU!!! A few years ago, I went back to my country (Indonesia) to visit my parents. It was a typical hot sweaty day and I was lounging around the house in my ratty t-shirt and shor ....


Comment preview: I live in a 3rd world country and one common, well-known scam is that someone calls you saying they're upgrading your phone and you need to switch your phone off to avoid losing all your data. Then, they call your relatives saying they're a hospital admini ....


Comment preview: Alright I wanna come out and say this. I have made this choice and it really was such a difficult thing to do, one of the hardest things ive ever had to do. To this day, i feel guilty. My reason was because I was a teen and I had no means to support a chil ....


Comment preview: **TL;WR. An elderly lady stopped an ice cream man from kidnapping me.** When I was 4 years old I heard the ice cream man truck and snuck outside while my parents were sleeping to try to get some ice cream. I guess I was the only kid that went out to him. A ....


Comment preview: Well, maybe I wasn't kidnapped that long but that day felt like hell to me. A couple years back (I was around twelve back then and my parents were gone for around two hours) my 15 year older half brother (so he was 25-30) showed up and started talking abou ....


Comment preview: I'm female. My dad is a single parent and when he was going through chemo for his Hep C everyone would judge him because he was a single dad with a daughter. They thought he had stolen me, or they would think he was a pedo because he would bathe and let me ....


Comment preview: My worst one was actually with Skyrim just after purchasing it. I started a playthrough and did up to the stage of the main plot that makes dragons become a random encounter around the world. Que getting kidnapped by the Dark Brotherhood, as a nice guy I d ....


Comment preview: Ha! That ain't psycho! I dated a girl who cheated on me and told EVERYONE that I'd cheated on her, knowing fine well that most of the members of her family were somewhat unhinged... But still it came of some surprise when her dad kidnapped me, beat the shi ....


Comment preview: TL;DR - mate of mine thought he'd been kidnapped by organ criminals. My friend once had a horrific motorbike accident. A car pulled out of a junction in front of him whilst he was travelling at 50mph. He hit the car, flipped over the central reservation an ....


Comment preview: Visited Australia/NZ this summer, and what really surprised me was - the number of Chinese/Asian tourists (not trying to be racist) holy shit, they are everywhere. I'm pretty sure I saw more of them then I did actual Australians/New Zealanders, (especially ....


Comment preview: The thing is, Redditors like to take rare occurrences and pretend they're extremely common. It's really bizarre behavior. When I mentioned that my parents divorced when my mom was pregnant with me, and I've never met my father, I had a dozen replies and ....


Comment preview: Gotta weigh in on this one. Forget this company, forget Utah, forget legality, forget even the teenager part. All this discussion of what I consider minor details almost makes me laugh. Why? This kind of stuff was happening to ADULTS at least 15 years ago ....


Comment preview: THIS IS SO CHEESY. But, my dad would always sing me "You are my sunshine," the lyrics being as follows: "You are my sunshine, My only sunshine, You make me happy, When the skies are grey, You'll never know dear, How much I love you, So please don't take, M ....


Comment preview: In order to do this properly, you need a friend who has as much balls as you. Get up to give your speech and give something normal and boring (or just the other one you have prepared). When people are settling in to your speech then **BAM!!** The door bus ....