Short Reads

"I was a writer. I rented a place in the countryside to seek inspiration.The villagers said it was a haunted house. Twenty years ago, a mad woman mu..."

"Snowie Walton, the belle of the class, claimed she could hear my thoughts. When a classmate gained weight from hormone medications, she pointed at ..."

"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..."

"I was getting married—but I didn't tell my parents.It was my fifth wedding.The last four? Total disasters, thanks to them. Every time, they claimed..."

"In this world, there are more ways to deal with a problem than the problem itself. That applies just as well to cheating men.Rich men, especially, ..."

"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 long-term relationship has finally paid off. At the wedding venue, my fiancee, Dakota Young, has just begun sliding the ring onto my finger when..."

"Yvette Warren, personal secretary to billionaire Orson Cox, announced that the heiress who was accidentally switched at birth 20 years ago was livi..."

"Midnight. I heard a faint meowing through the window. I was about to have a look when floating words appeared in front of me.[Don't open the window..."

"The night before graduation, my best friend Sophie talked me into confessing to Lucas Sterling, the boy I'd secretly loved for three years.She said..."

"I went viral, all for the wrong reasons. The world came down hard on me, all because I refused to approve my employee, Cassandra’s, maternity leave..."

"I had just gotten home when a parent in my son’s class group chat erupted:[Ms. Zinn, what kind of place are you running? Do you let just any random..."

"I got hurt and lost consciousness on the battlefield. When I woke up after a three-day coma, I suddenly wanted to pull a prank on my mate. “Who ar..."

"My adopted daughter, Phoebe Marsh, possessed an evil ability. Whenever she got hurt, the pain would also be inflicted directly on my biological dau..."

"I am a doctor who specializes in treating infertility. People liked to joke and call me the "Life-Bringer."By day, I worked at the hospit..."

"The buzzing of my phone in the middle of the night jolted me awake. On the other end of the line came a voice I could never forget. It was my daugh..."

"I live alone. At eleven o'clock on a rainy night, an unexpected call came through.The voice on the other end said my car window was left open and u..."

"The day I recovered from my mental illness and got discharged, my parents held me in their arms with tears of happiness. My sister gave me a teddy ..."

"On the seventh day after my daughter goes missing, I kidnap an entire kindergarten. I lock away all 27 students and two teachers in a classroom. I ..."

"Each of my three ex-boyfriends ends up committing suicide right after eating food that my mother, Florence Winters, makes.Their deaths are very dif..."

"I sell handmade fortune cookies in the park. Each one costs $10,000, yet every day, people fight to buy them.That’s because what I sell are fertili..."

"After returning from my business trip, I saw my wife lying on the couch in an alluring position.I initially thought it was a surprise, but the next..."

"My husband and I have been married for a decade. When I finally conceive for the first time in ten years, I realize my worst enemies are my family,..."

"I chase my six-year-old daughter out of the house on a cold winter day.I cut her new clothes to pieces and dirty her dainty little face with mud. T..."