“There are shades of schadenfreude. My favorite shade is bright red, from a haughty spanking.”—Jarod Kintz. A loanword from the German language, “schadenfreude” describes the act of taking of pleasure in someone else’s pain. Not...
One day, my dad looked at me, and then looked at my mom, and said: “It’s me or him. Choose.” I thought my mom would take my side, but I was so, so wrong.