Short Reads

"I was finally pregnant after three years of marriage. I was going to head to where my husband works with a lunchbox in my hand to tell him the good..."

"William Graham and Jasmine Spencer had been at odds since they were kids.But that year, fate played a trick on them—out of all the eligible matches..."

"The day I dissolved the mate bond, I called my childhood friend to pick me up.I had a bank card with barely any balance left, my phone, and the sam..."

"“I need your help to fake a private jet crash,” I said quietly.“It’s the only way I can ever leave Luca Moretti.”People said he’d given up the Mafi..."

"I dated my lawyer boyfriend for five years. He canceled our wedding. Fifty-two times.First time? His intern messed up some paperwork. He ditched me..."

"I had been secretly married to my CEO husband for six years, but he still would not let our son call him “Dad.”After he missed our son’s birthday a..."

"I vowed to transfer schools with my childhood friend when he claimed he was being bullied.But the day before we were to finalize the transfer, he b..."

""Miss Summers, are you sure you want to erase all your identity records? Once erased, it will be as if you never existed, and no one will be a..."

"After getting into a fight with my CEO husband, Zachary Langford, I decided to sleep in a hotel room that night out of fury. Little did I know that..."

"It all began with a single post about canceling a food delivery order. Overnight, I became the internet's punching bag.Thousands of vicious message..."

"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..."

""Mommy, you have to be the first person to come pick me up, okay?"These are my daughter Dorothy Grant's final words to me when she walked..."

"After being reborn, the first thing I did was switch my newborn daughter.In my previous life, soon after she was born, a blood test showed her type..."

"After my sister's appendectomy left her without both kidneys, I took a scalpel and held an entire hospital hostage.I locked twelve doctors and thre..."

"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..."

"My family and I have gone on a vacation to an island on All Hallows' Eve. Alas, that's where we get trapped by a flood as well.The tour guide claim..."

"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 ..."

"When I return home on Christmas Eve, I find a stamp on my wife's body. She looks flustered as she explains that it's a mark every member of her fam..."

"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..."

"At 10:00 pm sharp, a food deliveryman wearing a cap knocks on the door of Unit 502."Excuse me, are you the one who ordered delivery?"Unit..."

"My dormmates are my bullies. When they hear that my father owns a factory, they force me to get them part-time jobs there for the summer.I look dow..."

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

"After I got pregnant, I witnessed my boyfriend's grandmother's death. She left behind a secret, and now, everyone who knows that secret is dead.Fir..."

"I set fire to my painting in front of the entire academy.Thunderous applause erupts from the crowd as everyone thinks it's some kind of performance..."