Story a Day

There are a lot of websites for anonymously sharing your secrets. The most famous example is probably PostSecret. That’s the website where a guy puts up scans of postcards with anonymous secrets on them. The postcards reach his mailbox from all over the world. Many of the postcard secrets are sexual, like a fetish or fantasy. Some are family confessions; a mother will admit her child was adopted, or a boy will wish his brother had never been born. And others are more lighthearted, like the note from a Starbucks employee who covertly pours decaf for rude customers. You’ve probably seen the cards, or at least heard of them.

For the past year, I’ve been creating fake secrets and sending them in. Read the rest of this entry »