Short Reads

"My mom treated me like the dirt beneath her shoes but worshiped my cousin like a queen.Since I could walk, I had scrubbed clothes and cooked meals,..."

"My roommate beamed with pride as she told me a horrifying secret: she had allowed a wealthy businessman to "remove" her unborn child, cla..."

"Cindy Chase always claims that we're the best of friends, but she lies and says she's out shopping with me when she's actually on a date with someo..."

"I had no choice but to become the partner of a mafia boss with an incubus bloodline when his heat cycle began.To my surprise, Lionel Andrus and I g..."

"Edward Sterling is playing in his university's freshman basketball tournament when my parents banish me abroad.My biological sister and my fiancée ..."

"My boyfriend thought I was too fat at 121 pounds.I signed up for a gym and started working out like crazy, but the more I tried to lose weight, the..."

"My best friend and I signed up for the Dual Marriage System so the cancer wouldn't kill me. She and I managed to steal the hearts of the Hopkin bro..."

"On the day of my divorce, my ex-mother-in-law updates her social media with a photo. It's my husband's mistress' ultrasound—she's pregnant.Their fr..."

"My roommate won first prize in the national lottery, a full 100 million dollars.She quit her job on the spot, blocked her boss, and said to me, &qu..."

"Despite me being three months pregnant, my husband asked me to jump into the water to help his first love look for her necklace.I teared up and beg..."

"As I fought a stray dog for a loaf of moldy bread, distinguished guests arrived at the orphanage.They'd come to find the long-lost heir of a wealth..."

"In the third year of my relationship with Dante Santoro, heir to the Santoro family fortune, I got pregnant.The night before the Don's birthday ban..."

"My husband's ex-girlfriend left behind a cat that could nurse my daughter like a woman. I turned on my camera and livestreamed this horrifying scen..."

"The day my elder sister stole my fiancé from me, I did not fight back.Instead, I slipped past the maid guarding me and went straight to find my fat..."

"When the flood hit, my husband, Patrick Holmes, who was part of the rescue team, stood between me and his first love, Victoria Clarke, torn with he..."

"I accidentally break the glass that my husband's true love gave to him. As punishment, he sends me to a place where the upper crust groom their pla..."

"I lose my memory and wander the streets, surviving on scraps and the kindness of strangers.Then, Miles Blackwood from the Institute of Medical Rese..."

"Scott Chapman's company went bankrupt because his childhood sweetheart, Eula Saunder, had stolen confidential information from it.Despite having mi..."

"On the eve of our wedding, Evelyn Gates fell to her death. Everyone believed that, since I had always been devoted to her, I would take my own life..."

"Everyone in our circle knew I had always been obsessed with Daniel Rothman.I followed whatever he did—went to school, learnt eight different langua..."

"My younger sister Ruth and I got a do-over, reborn to the day we were about to be adopted. Ruth clung to Jeremy, the butcher who'd taken me in duri..."

"I'm diagnosed with late-stage cancer after undergoing a pre-employment medical checkup. My husband says the medication for my condition is expensiv..."

"In the third year of our marriage, my husband's first love got a divorce. He gave her the forty-five thousand dollars we had saved for a house beca..."

"On my wedding day, my best friend, Beatrice Hopper, buys a lottery ticket from a convenience store and gives it to me as a wedding gift. I initiall..."