Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
After my wife's third accidental miscarriage, the doctor said another one could cost her life.
I loved her too much to take that risk, so I worked up the courage to get a vasectomy.
I took a part-time job as a delivery driver after work…
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English · Contemporary
I had just driven out of the driveway when my phone buzzed with an unknown number.
"Hey man, your car is blocking the exit. I'm trapped here and can't get out."
I frowned, glancing at my hands on the steering wheel. I kept my tone…
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English · Contemporary
When Melanie, my husband Ethan's first love, found out I was pregnant, she was the one who lost her mind.
She came pounding on our door in the middle of the night, sobbing, and shoved me to the ground. That was how I lost my baby.
When…
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English · Contemporary
The day my husband won the prestigious National Architecture Award, I attended the ceremony as his spouse.
On stage, the host asked him who he wanted to thank the most.
He pointed the trophy toward the audience, his eyes filled with…
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English · Contemporary
A week before my wedding, on my way to pick up my diamond ring, I was abducted and tortured by thugs for a whole day and night.
When they finally found me, I was unrecognizable, lying in a pool of blood.
My father and brother canceled a…
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English · Contemporary
My seventy-year-old grandma, Evelyn, died on the operating table. Overcome with guilt, Julian stabbed himself in the abdomen right at her funeral.
To care for him and handle Grandma’s arrangements, I didn't close my eyes for three days…
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English · Contemporary
The biological daughter staged her own kidnapping.
In the video she sent to Ethan, she cried out pitifully for help.
But behind the camera, the kidnappers were kicking and punching me.
In the very last second of the video, Mia wailed,…
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English · Contemporary
The day my boyfriend told me he would support me, I quit my job.
Within a year, he started coming home every night smelling of alcohol.
Late one night, he was drunk again.
"Do you have any idea how exhausting it is for me to make money…
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English · Contemporary
Ethan’s first love—the woman he’d pined over for ten years—got divorced and came back to the country.
To give her a home again, Ethan decided to divorce me on the spot.
He didn’t hesitate to transfer half of his company's shares to my…
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English · Contemporary
The day the doctor told me I was going to die because I couldn't afford any more treatments was the exact same day Ethan returned to the city.
He was now a massively successful billionaire, and he had finally brought his fiancée back to…
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English · Contemporary
Ethan Vance was the boy next door, four years older than me.
During those hormone-fueled teenage years, I accidentally walked in on him relieving himself while staring at his phone.
I had a dirty, unspeakable secret: I desperately…
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English · Contemporary
I lent my co-worker $100,000 for her child's life-saving surgery. Now, she's telling everyone I'm trying to sleep with her husband.
When Chloe screamed those words in the breakroom, my coffee mug froze mid-air.
Three months ago, she…
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English · Contemporary
I meal prepped for my coworker for three years, and she paid me ten dollars each time.
I cooked every single day, using only the finest ingredients. The cost of each meal was at least fifteen to sixteen dollars.
I lost over two thousand…
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English · Contemporary
After my own mother and stepfather forced half a bottle of cheap red wine down my throat, they shoved me into the backseat of a Maybach.
But when I saw the man at the wheel, I actually let out a sigh of relief.
My stepfather, thinking…
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English · Contemporary
"130 pounds? Look in the mirror, Chloe. Do you even look like a girl?"
For the entire summer break, my plate only had boiled, tasteless vegetables.
Every morning, I had to run five miles on an empty stomach. Mom rode her e-bike right…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
The Vance family code was absolute: the empire only passes to a male heir.
To secure my birthright, I spent ten years pretending to be a man. Even Julian, my childhood fiancé, had no idea. To him, I was just Charlie, his best…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
As the host of the university's annual Winter Gala, I was standing backstage, holding my cue cards and getting ready to deliver the opening speech.
But as the heavy velvet curtains drew back, the giant screen behind me didn't show the…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On the day I was diagnosed with terminal cancer, I caught my wife cheating on me with a young boy-toy while asset-stripping my company.
Just as I was about to confront the cheating bastards, a Soul-Swap System suddenly bound to me.
The…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On my wedding day, my husband’s "pick-me" best friend showed up in a wedding dress before I even could.
While the guests stared in shock, she wrapped her arms tightly around my groom, kissing and hugging him.
When I called her out for…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
After giving birth, I was paralyzed.
I couldn't do simple things like lying on my side, rolling over, or sitting up.
The medical term for my condition is "Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction."
Under my husband's cold, disgusted gaze, I fell…
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English · Contemporary
After a grueling natural birth with a severe tear and an episiotomy, I was finally wheeled out of the delivery room. The first thing I saw was my husband’s junior colleague holding my newborn baby.
She was leaning against the wall of…
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English · Contemporary
My wife was pregnant, but instead of being happy, I was deeply worried.
Before going to sleep, I was scrolling through an anonymous parenting forum on my phone when a trending post caught my eye:
[My husband won't let me keep my…
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English · Contemporary
My husband used my skin to do a graft for his first love, but she complained it wasn't young and soft enough.
In his rage, he forced me to bear six children, one after another.
But he told me none of the babies survived because of…
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English · Contemporary
School's varsity football star Liam Davis was away for an away game on his very first day when Chloe Bennett, the school's IT girl and cheer captain, barged into his apartment with a group of her girls.
And there I was, lounging on his…
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