Short Reads

"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...."

"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..."

"After I join a new company, I keep running into problems—not from people, but from the company's equipment.The fingerprint scanner fails to recogni..."

"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..."

"During the annual awards gala, I stepped out to use the restroom. When I came back, my year-end bonus was gone, canceled for allegedly assaulting a..."

"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..."

"My five-year-old daughter loved telling lies.I had taken her out to a simple school supplies run, but she yelled on the street that I was a human t..."

"After transferring into an elite high school, I was bullied. However, it was not my classmates that bullied me; it was every object in the school.T..."

"I was lying in bed, scrolling on my phone with my pregnant belly heavy in front of me, when a local news alert popped up.'Wife killed in suburban m..."

"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..."

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

"Before my crazy grandmother died, she gave me three walnuts.According to her last wish, I cracked open the first walnut on my twenty-fifth birthday..."