Short Reads
Curated collection of short stories and micro-novels from around the web. Same genres you love in micro-dramas — now in text.

"Three days before the wedding, the church called to inform me that my fiancé had changed the date.When I went to ask him why, I walked in on him th..."
Before the Bells Ring

"At a family dinner, Don Vincenzo’s new pet, a dancer named Ava, came for me.She puffed out her chest and slammed a ledger on the long table.“Vincen..."
She Accused Me of Stealing My Own Business

"While my corpse was rotting in the morgue, my fiancé, Ron Corleone, was comforting my murderer.Lisa Corleone sobbed as she said, “After we were kid..."
Only the Sea Breeze Remembers

"Cecilia Laurent’s husband, Lyon Melville, was known across North Ameria’s underground circles as the biggest womanizer.As the current Don of the Me..."
I Left With My Daughter

"Everyone in New York knew I was the Godfather’s heart. Gavin Whitestone’s heart.He loved me for ten years. He’d fly into a rage if I so much as got..."
Three Scars:Betrayed by the Don

"Being the only daughter of the Calhoun family, a mafia family in Merovia, I am doted on like a princess. This changes when I turn 18, when Mom dies..."
Love Swiped Left on Me

"I was bleeding out in a corner after a hit from a rival family. My husband, Dante—the Torrino family’s underboss—was in his car, holding his best f..."
The Wife He Left for Dead

"The new Consigliere wanted to restructure the Mafia family’s affairs by sinking her claws into me. My boyfriend, who was a Mafia Don and wildly in ..."
Kicked Out by My Don Boyfriend

"I was his one weakness. Don Alex, the king of New York. And I was his queen.But days before our child was due, I was thrown into the Dockside Death..."
His Pregnant Queen in The Death Game

"Everyone in southern Italy knew that Lorenzo Moretti loved me like a madman.And yet he had been keeping a much younger woman in Naples. They said s..."
Burned Out of the Moretti Name

"The Don of the Vito family, Damiano Vito, has broken his wedding vows by cheating on me with the daughter of the rival mafia family, Bianca Sorace,..."
The Don I Housebroke After Divorce

"With a sharp gunshot, my husband of twenty years, Marcus De Luca, rushed in front of me and took the bullet for me.As he lay dying, he spoke gently..."
If There Is Another Life, Don’t Let Her Go to Sicily Again

"By the fifth year of my marriage to James Hill, he began pretending to be his late twin brother, the late Don of the family. With that, he took ove..."
The Great Godmother

"It's supposed to be a punishment, but it ends with me freezing to death in the freezer.My fiance, Carlo Vesta, also known as the heir of the Vesta ..."
My Death Turned the Don Into a Lunatic

"I married Don Matteo in secret. Every time he fucked his childhood sweetheart, he promised me a real wedding,in front of the Five Families.For five..."
The Don's Secret Wife No More

"After I married Riccardo, the Don of the Moretti family, he paraded a string of mistresses in front of me.He never gave me a second glance. But on ..."
Reborn into His Arms But My Devil Returned Too

"I found out I was pregnant at the same time as my mafia husband’s childhood sweetheart Rosa.To protect her baby from being aborted by her parents, ..."
The Mafia’s Forgotten Wife: Pregnant and Abandoned

"All of Novatia knew that Sophie Rossi was the foster daughter Soren Lucas doted on the most. However, on her 18th birthday, he punished her accordi..."
Incarcerated and Tortured for Loving the Don

"After my younger sister went abroad, I married the mafia Don in her place.Five years after we married, we became each other’s greatest enemies. He ..."
Reborn, I’m Done Being The Don’s Wife

"On the day that was supposed to be my wedding—the bride wasn’t me.The ceremony I’d waited for five years for turned into a joke when Valentina, my ..."
The Bride Who Lost Everything

"On my birthday, one of my husband’s subordinates leaned close to him and whispered in Russian, “Sasha has a surprise prepared for you tonight.”My h..."
Mafia Husband Gone Mad

"Five days before my wedding, a group of MadeMen drag me to an underground casino."I'm the fiancé of Lorenzo Gambino, Don of the Gambino family..."
Not Your Pet: I'm My Own Queen

"When I was fourteen, my brother—the Don—brought home an orphan girl to settle a debt of gratitude.From then on, my life within the Corleone family ..."
The Day I Left, My Brother the Don Regretted

"I once thought I would spend my entire life in love with my husband, Vincenzo, the Don of the De Luca family.In the end, our whirlwind romance was ..."