Short Reads

"A fierce storm erupts on a mountain peak at 25,561 feet, trapping me in the mountain camp under heavy snow.My husband, the leader of the mountain e..."

"I was sitting at the police station. My landlord scolded me harshly and pointed at my nose. Out of nowhere, my mother called and berated me mercile..."

"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..."

"A curse is cast upon everyone in this village, reducing us to mutes. But once a villager's lover takes three laps around the back mountain and marr..."

"I loved Stella for five years, and we were even engaged.However, she never helped when my grandfather was dying, all because the adopted son of my ..."

"There's a little shop downstairs that sells organ soup. It's always packed with customers. People line up as if bewitched, eager for a bowl.I've of..."

"Shortly after I married Andrew Lorne, my mother-in-law has my husband's widowed sister-in-law move in with us. She wants my husband to bear the res..."

"My younger sister, Angela Schrute, got married at 20. By 21, she already had a child.I'm Elizabeth Schrute, 27 years old, and still unmarried.Over ..."

"My brother and I get into a car accident.My heart is ruptured—I need emergency surgery. But my mother, the hospital director, calls every available..."

"There are no grown men in our village.When girls turn 18, they participate in a coming-of-age ceremony in the ancestral hall. Dressed in ceremonial..."

"Everyone in the social circle of Kingsford said I was nothing more than a lapdog raised by Charles Mankin.I was always at his beck and call. I did ..."

"My boyfriend is a forensic artist. He was forced to make a harrowing decision to save his first love. At the killer's demand, he created a portrait..."

"On Mom's death anniversary, drug dealers break into the cemetery and take me away.To get revenge on my brother, Zack Smith—a forensic pathologist—t..."

"Neil Jackson's true love steals highly radioactive materials, but I'm the one who's facing a jail sentence.I find the thief, but Lorraine Larsen re..."

"As my due date approaches, my husband's precious mistress falls into the water at a banquet. After being rescued, she immediately accuses me of pus..."

"During the pack's wilderness training, my adopted sister, Tessa, shoved me from a cliffside thick with wolfsbane.My Alpha, Fenrir, turned and left ..."

"My boyfriend insists on hiking up a snow-covered mountain to see a waterfall. That very day, I fall from the peak.When I regain consciousness, I've..."

"Alpha Kieran personally invited me to serve as Beta of Silvercrest Pack.But on my second day in the territory, my neighbor Gloria dragged her dishe..."

"On my husband's birthday, I poured my heart into preparing a feast and selecting the perfect gift. Yet, he didn't come home.Instead, I received a p..."

"A gorgeous new lawyer named Charlotte Lowell joins our law firm and claims she has been reborn.One day, a publicly listed company offers us a massi..."

"Brody Lewis, my fiance, said that I had a rare form of transient global amnesia, which was a sudden, temporary memory loss.Every seven days, I woul..."

"During my night shift, I refused to help my adopted sister administer fluids to her patient.After the wrong drug is given, I watch a seven-year-old..."

"Samson Carroll's father, who is the CEO of Carroll Group, is hospitalized, and my sister decides to return to the hospital to work as a nurse. She ..."

"Just as my wealthy boyfriend and I were talking about getting married, his mother dismissed me as an unrefined girl and demanded I attend a finishi..."