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Monday 02 April 2007
"I'd taken a rash at home and my mother was about to have her 4th child. I was whisked away to Purdysburn hospital and was put in an isolation ward. I was lying there a month. "
Tuesday 03 April 2007
"I was going deeper and deeper and suddenly I plunged into the trench. Down I went, up to my waist in ice cold water."
Wednesday 04 April 2007
"I felt something I never felt before... I felt goofy, I felt silly and I couldn't stop grinning."
Thursday 05 April 2007
"As I was washing his hands I saw that he was crying. It was just the most extraordinary moment with a complete stranger."
Friday 06 April 2007
"As we drove on, his English changed to Chinese, then the penny finally dropped, there was something wrong with his brain."
Sunday 08 April 2007
"I found my little brother on the floor, face completely covered in chocolate. He was always a little troublemaker. "
Monday 09 April 2007
"I just looked to the left in time to see my father go over the wall...the immediate thought that came to my mind was...my father can't swim."
Tuesday 10 April 2007
"A couple of months before this letter had arrived I placed an advert in a Canadian newspaper. I really didn't expect to get anything back."
Wednesday 11 April 2007
"I knew he was hurt, I knew that the dog was in pain...He was so sad looking and his eyes were red. It actually looked like the dog was crying."
Thursday 12 April 2007
"We had already been prisoners of war for three years... we were down on food, even the Japanese were starving."
Friday 13 April 2007
"I could see this shadow at the end of the bed... it was my grandmother."
Monday 16 April 2007
"I had almost forgotten the taste of chocolate...It was vaguely familiar."
Tuesday 17 April 2007
"It was the most strange, beautiful, bizarre, weird experience that I ever had in my life. I don't want to get into a theological debate, but it was a greatness of something beyond our comprehension."
Wednesday 18 April 2007
"It was like a fairytale; something out of this world...It was like a child seeing Disneyland for the first time."
Thursday 19 April 2007
"It looked as though my prayers might have been answered. To my absolute horror at four minutes to one, a smirk spread over the teacher's face..."
Friday 20 April 2007
"The nurse just looked at me as if I was off my head. As if I was delusional. "
Monday 23 April 2007
"It made me see the bigger picture. I was never going to look down again"
Tuesday 24 April 2007
"All the faces just blurred into one, I just couldn't identify anybody."
Wednesday 25 April 2007
"I could hear him struggling for breath, and I was thinking my boy was going to die in my arms."
Thursday 26 April 2007
"Basically your own instinct for survival takes over at that time."
Friday 27 April 2007
"My Dad told us the news that he had been diagnosed with an illness...I just remember not knowing what to say..."
Monday 30 April 2007
"I smoked since I was seven-years-old. I knew it was bad for me."