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drewses
drewses

Ma & Pa's Traditional, Slow Roast, Shame-Spiral

1: take one fresh aspirational mind, marinate in a mix of 20% unrealistic expectations 50% delusion and 30% arrogance. An overnight marinade works well but for best results, set aside for 20 years.

24 1 210 words
ioperfvy
ioperfvy

Untitled

Everyone always talks about this point in life when you realise who you are, what you want to achieve and who you ultimately want to be. I fear that this day will never come.

2 0 130 words
smellyfingers
smellyfingers

Seventh Sense

I crash landed and fell to Earth I was even doomed to fail at birth But something helped me, which was weird at first It kind of follows me around now like a vampire at thirst It's the not knowing or...

14 4 389 words
nick_cant_read
nick_cant_read

Quitting

My words have never been many My thoughts may never be known How am I to read emotion When i know not my own The living can say they understand But little do they do The world cannot...

40 10 138 words
Das_Mimi
Das_Mimi

Reality

I guess I haven't felt like myself lately... I've been having these dreams... Many dreams... For many nights... Of you... They don't hold meaning anymore...

8 11 185 words
ioperfvy
ioperfvy

I Don't Know A Thing

I don't know what I enjoy I don't know what I want to do I don't know why I'm here I don't know who I am I don't know what's right and wrong I don't know how to let my pride go I don't know how to...

8 0 190 words
pthasse
pthasse

Awake

Alas a break from my sleep and thus I awake, On the 5th of November two thousand and twelve, These walls around me pause, look at myself, Alive, healthy, feeling good with myself, Such pools in my...

20 1 241 words
niixxz
niixxz

Silently Screaming

World is cruel. It ain't scary. Fear is just. Imaginary. Behind bars. Of darkness. All alone. More or less. Mentally. I cut my wrist. I ask myself. Do I exist. I hide myself. Behind the pain. Who am...

36 3 77 words
redapples99
redapples99

The Choice

He rounded the corner, He had to make the choice, A 70ft drop; Or a cop. He could end this misery, He could end this pain, By running; of the edge.

12 0 74 words
featherless
featherless

Hollow

I sat there watching. The guests were mingling, scuffing cake and cookies in their face. They talked about the weather and the news and how the cake was so lovely.

22 2 108 words
safefood
safefood

Sững Sờ Và Run Rẩy - Amelie Nothomb

"Thế là tôi bước lại gần ô cửa sổ bằng kính khổng lồ, dõi mắt theo mười một bến tàu điện ngầm và nhìn về cuối chặng đường: chẳng thấy hay tưởng tượng nổi mái nhà nào ở đó.

0 0 226 words
softwhispers
softwhispers

Ashes

What have I become. You left neither with an adieu nor with Traces and trail for me to seek or chase.

26 7 202 words
mort
mort

Set Me Free

It's been a long time. I've not written a thing. My life's all screwed up. What will death bring. My mind is a blank. My heart simply gone. I'm sitting here waiting. Deaths taking so long. 34 years.

38 12 105 words
Diddle
Diddle

Untitled

I see red footsteps,. On the snow,. I'm blinded by,. What I don't know,. Is that blood spilt,. Or in my mind,. Answers are swirling,. But I'm yet to find,. I see the devil,. Coming close,.

12 0 64 words
AaronSXavier
AaronSXavier

If Everyone Forgets

The line between dreams and reality. Blurs everyday. I don't know what's real anymore. These eyes have seen too much. I don't go a day without. Questioning. Who I am. And what do I stand for.

16 0 177 words
SupremacyCorp
SupremacyCorp

The Ties That Bind: Exodus

All that stand in my way will be crushed for demolition be thy name today and without mercy I shall step forth with words that cut deeper then the most tempered blade and venom that could upstage the...

2 0 834 words
Irrational_Kimmi
Irrational_Kimmi

Mistakes

~Warning: bad language~ I never seem to learn From all the mistakes, Bad ideas and heartaches I've put myself through, Guess I like the taste of you Way too much to ever quit, And I never seem to...

22 8 151 words
nikujagagirl
nikujagagirl

Insanity

I'm surrounded by insanity. Everyone I know is completely mad, my friends, my enemies, my family, even I am as nutty as a loon.

22 0 49 words
sara_lou
sara_lou

Dark Rotten Mess

Staring into the abyss The lost princess wondering what she would miss Her long curly blonde hair She used to stand without a care But now she stood, a shadow of the girl she used to be Standing...

20 3 88 words
MelchiorJ13
MelchiorJ13

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

I've been living off of questions, With Chris Tarrant by my side, All of my lifelines, in their hundreds, Have agreed I should decide.

24 0 146 words
catchingdaisies
catchingdaisies

Nothing

Today I think I can say has been a crappy day. I just feel as if I don't belong. I just feel like there is nothing to do and there will be nothing to do. Nothing is fine.

2 0 152 words
curiouscaitlin
curiouscaitlin

Marienne

Soft skinned, thin legged, red lips and bony hips Smoky eyed, wink each sin like a beat I'll run if you tell me, I'll bite my lip harder I'll drink until I'm on the floor "My, she's an animal, she...

34 5 414 words
nikujagagirl
nikujagagirl

Why?

Even now I still don't understand why people will listen to the ramblings of an idiot but shut out the cries of someone in need. Why people want what they know they cannot have.

14 3 129 words
sarahgamal
sarahgamal

Is This It?

Is this it. Is this all.

16 6 96 words
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