Short Reads

"The new intern, Cynthia Joller, had posted about me online, claiming the company had made them use their leave for team building. No one wanted to ..."

"Half a year after our divorce, my ex-husband became a trending topic online.His current wife, who had just given birth, jumped off a building.When ..."

"I was the firm’s star. The one they called for the impossible cases. My latest miracle? The “Titan Project” patent case.I made the firm a billion d..."

"The nanny, Polly Jackson, pushes me down the stairs when I'm seven months pregnant. I suffer from major blood loss and go into premature labor.Befo..."

"I grew up abroad. My mother feared I might marry a foreign man, so she arranged an engagement for me with a talented and handsome man in Flodon. Sh..."

"I, Gianna Johnston, am born into a family of prodigies.My dad, Henry Johnston, is a computer science professor from Hafford University. My mom, Nao..."

"My daughter, Wendy Lawson, was a rising star in the piano world.But on the day of the piano competition grand finals, someone locked her in a restr..."

"The legendary jewelry I ordered for my little sister had finally arrived at the boutique, so I brought her to pick it up. The moment we stepped int..."

"My boyfriend's one true love, Winnie Lynch, lost a wager on the open seas and she was going to be fed to the tiger sharks in the shark tank soon.As..."

"While on a business trip, I stumbled into my brother-in-law, Julian Zeller, mid-act with a male colleague in a hotel parking lot.Furious, I blew th..."

"During the holiday, my six-year-old son received his cleft-lip surgery. He wore a mask and sat quietly in our family bookstore, engrossed in a pict..."

"When my mother-in-law was poisoned and clinging to life, my toxicology knowledge was her only hope.I ended the call and grabbed my coat, ready to r..."

"School had just dismissed us for the exam-break when my roommate begged me not to leave her alone in the dorm. She said she was scared and wanted t..."

"The underprivileged student I've been sponsoring suddenly shows up at my birthday party, swaggering in and waving around a pregnancy report."L..."

"I'm at an auction with my mother-in-law, Agnes Bachert. She spots a breathtaking emerald necklace, and we end up winning it for 30 million dollars...."

"At three in the morning, I was urgently called to an underground hospital in Verdanza to operate on the mafia Don's only son.But the man lying on t..."

"On the seventh day after my daughter goes missing, I kidnap an entire kindergarten. I lock away all 27 students and two teachers in a classroom. I ..."

"After I graduated, I kept hitting walls while job hunting, but my boyfriend landed a position at a big company with ease.My boyfriend of two years ..."

"After my eight-year-old twin sister was kidnapped, my dad became the person who wished for my death more than anyone else in the world. He would al..."

"Over the Fourth of July weekend, I took my boyfriend's sister to his flashy new influencer hub.Fresh off brain surgery, Benedetta Griffin needed a ..."

"My sister had struggled with depression since childhood. The doctor warned that she could not tolerate any kind of stimulation.As a result, my enti..."

"On the day of the United Nations meeting, I noticed a new electronic watch on my wife’s wrist.She said it was a gift from her first love to monitor..."

"My mom and dad died heroically in a fire rescue, trying to protect an orphan. Afterward, my brother brought the orphan, Audrey, home. To make her s..."

"The entire world froze. Overnight, the city plunged to –40 °F.Yet, in the middle of this frozen apocalypse, my mother, my sister and her son moved ..."