Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
I used my own network to land a multi-million-dollar contract for my girlfriend, Sienna, helping her secure the Director promotion.
Tonight, at the celebration gala, we were finally going to announce our relationship to the company.
My…
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English · Contemporary
After Dad got promoted, he laid down a strict new rule for our house.
Every Friday from 9:00 PM to Saturday morning at 7:00 AM was his official "Silent Time."
No calls, no texts, and absolutely no trivial domestic drama could disturb…
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English · Contemporary
Midnight. My phone buzzed with a text and an attached photo from my best friend.
"Chloe, didn't know you and your man were into this kind of thing. A brand-new themed love hotel downtown? Wild."
I stared at the screen, my entire body…
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English · Contemporary
My wife secretly took me for a "routine checkup" to see if I was a kidney match for her first love, who had just been in a car crash.
When the results came back positive, she was ecstatic and tried to coax me into signing the consent…
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English · Contemporary
My wife had an abortion—killing the baby we fought so hard to conceive—just so she could give her terminally ill first love a child to carry on his bloodline.
Afraid I would ruin things, my father-in-law exposed my undercover identity…
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English · Contemporary
Nine years. That was how long I had been actor Julian Chase’s secret girlfriend.
When I finally heard he was holding a press conference to introduce his partner to the world, I spent hours dressing up, my heart racing with…
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English · Contemporary
I slaved away for months to close a mega-project with the National Design Institute, only for my wife to turn around and claim I was holding the company back.
She handed all the credit over to her golden boy.
Instead of blowing up, I…
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English · Contemporary
I worked until 2:00 AM every single night over Thanksgiving week. Just when I thought I could finally clock out and go home,
My boss’s side chick called, demanding I deliver condoms to her and our boss right then and there.
Exhausted to…
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English · Contemporary
There was a viral confession thread blowing up on Twitter.
The top comment read:
*“I’ve been holding this in for six months. I finally need to get it off my chest. I did something unforgivable to my sister. I fell in love with her…
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English · Contemporary
Our company just landed a massive account, and management wanted to throw a grand celebration banquet. I managed to pull some strings and booked a five-star hotel at an exclusive insider rate of $1,888 per table.
Out of nowhere, the new…
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English · Contemporary
When I was doing my exit paperwork at HR, the lady stared at my marriage certificate three separate times. "Honey, this certificate is fake."
I froze. "That's impossible. We waited in line at City Hall on Valentine's Day. The AC was…
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English · Contemporary
As I was stepping out of the apartment with my belongings, the neighbor suddenly stopped me in the hallway.
He furrowed his brows and asked, "Could you guys keep it down at night?"
I froze, bewildered. "What do you mean?"
"The walls…
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English · Contemporary
I had planned to confess my feelings to Logan, my childhood best friend and the guy I’d been secretly in love with for six years.
Instead, a single phone call made him abandon me on the spot, turning me into the biggest laughingstock on…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My name is Chloe Sinclair.
The year I turned twenty, I died.
They held a funeral for me, erected a gravestone, and completely erased me from this world. Meanwhile, dressed in mourning attire, I stood before my own grave, listening as my…
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English · Contemporary
At the high-end charity auction, I spent tens of millions of dollars on rare jewelry just to see my girlfriend smile.
Brody, her male intern who tagged along, secretly changed the shipping address to his own apartment.
Every single…
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English · Contemporary
I was on the brink of death after a horrific car crash, while my girlfriend was at the beach watching the sunrise with her ex.
Right before I was wheeled into the emergency room, the surgeon dialed my emergency contact. All that came…
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English · Contemporary
The first snow had just fallen in the mountains when Scarlett called, demanding that I hike up to the peak of Aspen to watch the snow with her.
By the time night fell, the gondolas had already stopped running. Carrying a heavy backpack…
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English · Contemporary
I had just closed a grueling case at the precinct when my phone buzzed incessantly. The high school alumni SnapChat group was blowing up, tagging me repeatedly.
"Claire Miller, today is our class president Chloe's engagement party. How…
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English · Contemporary
My husband made thirty thousand dollars a month.
He gave me three thousand for household expenses.
When my mom suddenly fell ill and I couldn't cover her emergency hospital deposit, I asked him for help.
He scoffed. "Evelyn, your mom…
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English · Contemporary
An hour before the district enrollment portal closed, my daughter's application was rejected.
Her residential address had been modified, and the three hundred thousand dollars I spent five grueling years building into her education…
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English · Contemporary
During the equity transfer signing, my wife's guy best friend deliberately signed his own name on the deed.
The company I had built with blood, sweat, and tears as a gift for my wife now belonged to him.
When I confronted him in utter…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The night the heat dome settled over San Riva, the ground temperature climbed toward 122 degrees.
I was keeping an underground cooling station running for more than six hundred residents, begging my husband Julian to send back the…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At three in the morning, I heard my mate Lucas murmuring to someone in his sleep.
"Be good. Daddy's moving you and mommy into the Riverbend cabin soon."
My eyes snapped open.
When we registered as official mates five years ago, we…
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English · Contemporary
Passing by the café downstairs after work, I caught Victoria chatting and laughing with a young man.
He fussed over her collar one moment and gently smoothed her hair the next.
I stood outside the glass window for hours. The man’s hands…
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