Short Reads

"I'm in the middle of my pediatric shift when an emergency call comes in.A three-year-old boy arrives, hemorrhaging and unconscious from a car crash..."

"I died beneath the Ferris wheel. The killer took a photo of the Ferris wheel and sent it to my mother.'Mom, I want to ride the Ferris wheel with yo..."

"Three years into my marriage with Shawn, I found out I was pregnant.I nervously but joyfully prepared to surprise him with the news.Yet what I rece..."

"A year ago, I was a rising star in the legal world. But everything changed when I uncovered evidence that my fiance's first love had caused an acci..."

"I did three years in prison for my wife, Lilian Parson.The day I got out, she handed me an envelope for her company's grand opening. Inside was a s..."

"On the day I tried on my wedding dress, a stranger burst into the VIP fitting room and slashed me with a knife.She tore my dress to shreds, her fac..."

"I was the legitimate firstborn daughter of the King of the North.After my mother’s death, my aunt married the King of the South and became his Quee..."

"Back when I was 20, I supported a girlfriend. I paid for her education and even found the best doctors for her mother, who had cancer. The sweet, b..."

"When my husband returned home to visit his parents, I noticed that he forgot to bring back the specialties he had bought. I ran after him, only to ..."

"My husband doesn't touch me on our wedding night. He claims he's too tired and asks me to wait. Then, he sneaks into the basement in the wee hours ..."

"There is a medical dispute at the hospital.A patient's family member comes at us swinging a knife. Without hesitating, I push my husband, Maxwell C..."

"After the cruise ship strikes a hidden reef, panicked passengers shove me and Kristen Langford into the sea. My boyfriend, Elijah Jensen, is the sh..."

"By year's end, I'd closed a huge deal and snagged a $2.5 million bonus. The company even sent me on early maternity leave—nice perk for being eight..."

"On our wedding day, Lily, the apple of Patrick Luther's eye, tried to kill herself.I grabbed onto his sleeve. "Please don't go."He pried ..."

"Zachary Smithson was my uncle in name. When I was seventeen, I confessed to him, but he rejected me fiercely.He tore up my love letter and told me ..."

"Maverick Lloyd finally agrees to marry me after five years of dating.We head to the hospital to tell my ill mother the good news. On the way there,..."

"At the party, my daughter deliberately raises a question to my husband. "Daddy, since Ms. Lloyd is having your baby, does that mean we'll be l..."

"Every year, my husband, Daniel Trahan, elopes with his childhood sweetheart, Callie Reed, on our wedding anniversary.On that day, they do everythin..."

"Three months after my fiancé disappeared, I saw him at the airport, his arm around a girl.He laughed smugly, "Thanks to my buddies, coming up ..."

"My younger son, who is seven, is bitten by a snake. I take him to my elder son's hospital to be treated. To my surprise, my elder son's girlfriend ..."

"My husband’s first love had a miscarriage. He insisted that it was my doing and forced me to give my daughter up.“If it weren’t for you, Becky woul..."

"Ethan West and I were together for seven years. Because of one promise, I gave up the thrill of being a gold-medal race car driver to become a hous..."

"It's my husband, Niall Luther's birthday. I take my son to the hospital to visit Niall since he's working late; I want to surprise him.However, we ..."

"I am the hated true daughter of my family. One day, I was kidnapped along with my sister. The kidnappers cut off a section of my finger and sent it..."