Short Reads

"When I first started at Serenity Hills, the head nurse told me coma patients paid well—but the job was messy and brutal.They could only get IV nutr..."

"The wealthy Hanson family makes it clear that whichever sister gives birth to the family's first grandson will inherit the billion-dollar fortune.I..."

"I am a miserable nurse.During the Halloween season, there was a three day break but I was not given any days off. Upset, I decided to join a game f..."

"I opened my eyes to a sharp sting in my arm.Pushing up my sleeve, I froze.A dense line of jagged letters had been carved into the skin of my right ..."

"I, Julian Manning, am the top salesman at a car dealership, and I never refuse any customer's request.But today, I turn away a regular customer who..."

"I could always hear strange noises coming from the room next to me. A cacophony of people having intercourse. The noise kept me awake all night. Bu..."

"Late one night after getting off work, I was scrolling through my company group chat when a colleague shared a piece of news. The headline was horr..."

"My mom is a famous perfumer who's well-known in town. But her perfumes are charged per session.One session costs 200 thousand dollars. She only tak..."

"Celeste Leblanc, the daughter of the richest man in the city, has ordered a custom-fitted ring worth a billion dollars according to my finger size...."

"On the night of Mom's birthday, as she was making a wish under the moon, Dad suddenly leaned close to her ear and whispered something.My usually ca..."

"One night, my family sat together watching the New Year’s Eve Live on television.My little sister, Stella Larson, said she had to pee and hurried t..."

"When I got home, I received dozens of voice messages from a parent. They had been sent in the group chat with other parents of children in the same..."

"On the Northwind Trail, just before sunrise, my flashlight cut across the inside of the SUV and landed on five lifeless bodies. My hands shook as I..."

"During the five years I was in a vegetative state, all ten family soldiers assigned to guard me were murdered.One of them merely smoked a cigarette..."

"On the third day of my son, Zeke Murphy's disappearance, I've hacked into the smart AI system belonging to the entire apartment block.All 202 famil..."

"In the backyard of my home, there is a dark red jar that is about half a person's height. It is half buried in the ground, and my whole family forb..."

"I was a sketch artist acting for the police.On a secret mission, I was discovered by a murderer. My eyes were gouged out, and my body was dismember..."

"As Christmas drew near, my little sister claimed she’d seen Santa Claus in the house.“He had four legs, real long, like dead branches. He crawled o..."

"As the news broadcast reported a random serial killing near my residential complex, I knew—I had been reborn once again.In my first life, my husban..."

"My deskmate has been giving me odd looks lately. She's been keeping her distance from me and avoiding me at all costs. It's the same when we go to ..."

"My SAT scores are out. It turns out that I'm the top scorer of my state. But I insist on applying to an obscure, third-rate private college in fron..."

"Two months remained until debut evaluation night.Before our unit performance, our main dancer suddenly offered me her center position.I stared at h..."