They were mildly annoyed

I took the chance to have a glimpse of my son one last time from a distant wall before deciding to walk away with my bare feet towards the empty and cold street.

I handed him over to the three large stoic men, and one of them handed me a wad of cash as they placed him into the back of their car.

When the parents came back and saw me holding their barely breathing child, they said I was a kidnapper, and the cop believed them just because of how I looked.

"You shouldn't."

I'm sorry Mr. Harper ", says the responding officer as he leads my best friend to his cruiser, "but your dog has bitten someone and must be destroyed."

But now that I know that the accident that they both were killed in was caused by faulty brakes, I really regret my decision.

“There’s a good girl”, the man replied, stroking her one last time before nodding at the vet.

"Sir, please sir, you took my lovely wife," is all he managed to say before he broke down.

When I was a teen, I’d pretend to be asleep so I could figure out if he was touching me like that on purpose.

And I wonder deeply in thought, thinking if whatever we've been through was a lie in disguise?

As much as it has always annoyed her now that Edgar's passed on Doreen can't bring herself to put them away.

At lunch, I realised I was the only one in the lunch room and as they all came back from the pub, laughing together until they saw me, sitting there all alone, forgotten and uninvited.

her entire team died in the crash

Until the clip snapped and he old everybody to look out.

I'd thought my troubles were over when I learned I was a swan all along, but the other swans think it's weird how I keep acting like a duck.

An aging ghost of squandered innocence, I throw the now empty whisky bottle behind me as I step out onto the shadowed bend of the tracks to meet the welcome roar of the 12:15.

Tears begin to well in my eyes and I wonder if you still remember and wish me one, even though it’s been years since we last spoke.

but you are not there. You are not even in my present anymore.

what would you like to do with the tissue?

I overheard the nurse down the hall exclaim, why can't they just leave us alone, before silencing the call again.

Being the only one that stopped to help the Koalas in this brutal Australian heat, I ask myself again why animals are so overlooked.

i howled with laughter as agnes grey’s dad died with you are my special blasting on my earbuds

I always took the initiative to crossed towns to go to them, but they never crossed a road to get to me.

My dog died last year on this day.

What if you never had anything to begin with?

And now you want to disown me because I'm finishing the job you started, Dad?

Now did you say you wanted large or extra large fries with that?

None.

His classmates roll their eyes as they whisper to each other, "Why does he always lie like that when everyone knows his mom doesn't even know who his dad is?"