Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
I found a secret dark room in my husband, Dr. Julian Thorne's, study.
Inside, dozens of glass jars held specimens of my body parts.
From a fingernail he'd snipped when we first held hands, to a strand of hair he'd collected after our…
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English · Contemporary
Christmas Eve. Mom suffered a sudden brain hemorrhage and was rushed to the ICU.
I called my husband Ryan. His ex-girlfriend Celeste answered.
"He's in the shower. Can I take a message?"
A few hours later, Celeste updated her social…
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English · Contemporary
The year my daughter needed me most, I left her at a foster home and married a wealthy man instead.
Five years later, she became an A-list celebrity. Her first move after hitting the big time? Calling me during her victory…
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English · Contemporary
Adrian has a saliva allergy. Even the slightest contact with someone's lips would cause his whole body to break out in hives.
At our wedding, when the officiant asked us to kiss, just one light touch sent him into shock and straight to…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The company decided to downsize using what seemed like a fair method—an anonymous online vote.
Whoever got the most votes would be let go.
The boss gave us one day to cast our ballots.
The next day, when Mr. Reid announced the…
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English · Contemporary
I hit the $100 million lottery jackpot. I came home for the holidays, ready to share the news with my family.
But Mom beat me to it with an announcement of her own:
"I sold the rental property for top dollar! I'm giving Derek two…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
Right after my check-up, I scrolled past a help post:
"The college student I'm seeing has kidney failure. The only matching donor is my wife. How can I get my wife to willingly donate her kidney to her?"
Someone in the comment section…
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English · Contemporary
After my husband left for his business trip, I got a call:
"Hello, I'm a clerk from a sex toy store. May I speak with Mrs. Miller? Your husband's payment for the sex toy he bought yesterday afternoon failed. Could you please complete…
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English · Contemporary
Mom always said my birthday was her day of suffering, so she never allowed me to celebrate it.
But Chloe… she always had a grand birthday party every year.
I cried, begging Mom to let me celebrate just once.
Mom, however, pulled out the…
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English · Contemporary
On our wedding night, my wife, Sarah, wouldn't let me touch her. She said she was too tired and asked me to wait a while.
But every night, in the dead of night, she'd sneak downstairs to the basement. When she returned, she'd always…
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English · Contemporary
I'd been undercover for five years with crime boss Damien Thorne.
My mission was finally supposed to end.
Then, my captain told me the plan was postponed.
"There's a bigger fish behind Damien. We have to wait."
I looked down in silence…
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English · Contemporary
I received an electricity bill for a villa I hadn’t visited in ages.
Weird, right? So I drove over there.
Pushing open the door, I found the place packed with my old college classmates!
And right in the middle of the crowd, my fiancée…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
I heard that the girl Kamran Thorne was interested in this time had been with her struggling boyfriend for years.
Kamran was relentless in pursuing her, taking what he wanted, by force if necessary, no matter the consequences.
The…
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English · Contemporary
My husband, Liam, had been taking me, eight months pregnant, to this cheap fried chicken place daily.
He always ordered the same $4.99 combo.
I told him I was sick of fried chicken and asked him to get me a salad instead.
He slammed…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My daughter was hit by an entitled rich kid speeding on a pedestrian walkway. He was drunk.
Multiple rib fractures, and her thigh bone was shattered. She’s still in a coma.
His parents want to settle.
He was arrogant, utterly…
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English · Contemporary
Jillian planted 9,999 roses herself to propose to me.
When the 9,999th rose finally bloomed, I was moved.
On our first day of marriage, I prepared 99 reconciliation coupons.
We agreed: whenever she made me angry, she could use one…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend, Leo, bailed on my birthday dinner again—this time for his assistant, Chloe.
That same day, I quietly submitted an application for a three-year international secondment.
He happened to see my application form, but just…
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English · Contemporary
"Stop… It's too deep… I can't take it!"
A handsome man had me pinned beneath him, unable to move.
His voice was tender, but his movements were anything but.
"Baby, I'm only halfway there."
After catching my Commander husband cheating, I…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My husband died protecting the border.
I took our three-year-old son on a train to bring his ashes home.
My son couldn't hold back his quiet sobs.
The couple next to us exploded.
“Can’t you control your brat child?!”
They snatched…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My husband has a strange hereditary illness.
Every six months after we got married, he would lose his memory for fifteen days.
And during those fifteen days, hed fall madly, passionately in love with another woman.
The first time…
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English · Contemporary
Mom organized an engagement party for my boyfriend and Daisy—the silly girl from the corner store that everyone calls idiot.
Our neighbor asked her:
“Patricia, isn’t that Scarlett’s boyfriend? How on earth did Scarlett agree to…
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English · Contemporary
It was our eighth wedding anniversary, and I wanted to surprise Scarlett, my wife.
Instead, her assistant, Liam, knocked me down the stairs.
Liam looked terrified. "Oh no, did I mess up again? I'm so sorry, please scold…
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English · Contemporary
My best friend and I married brothers from the same family, and we ended up pregnant around the same time.
I married Julian, the brother who’s a doctor, and she married Leo, his good-looking police officer brother.
On our first…
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English · Contemporary
After being reborn, I'm going to make sure my brother becomes an internet celebrity.
My brother, Mike, would prank me daily on his live streams, all to become famous.
If I dared to resist, Mom and Dad would scream at me for being…
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