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English · Romance · Contemporary
My husband’s cute little secretary was crying and threatening to jump off the roof again.
All because I spent fifteen dollars on groceries without asking for her approval first. She claimed I didn’t respect her position.
That very…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At our company's anniversary gala, my husband’s secretary’s dog bit me.
In my panic, I threw the dog off me. But my husband, Ethan, yelled at me in front of everyone.
"Buster has been with Chloe for two years! How could you be so…
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English · Contemporary
Everyone could see the glowing countdown timer above my twin sister Clara's head. Everyone knew she was destined to die the year she turned eighteen.
Because of this, Clara was the absolute center of our universe.
The TV remote was…
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English · Contemporary
On our seventh wedding anniversary, Carter gave me a very special gift.
A divorce agreement, and a stack of printed Snapchat messages showing me "cheating."
In the photos, I was chatting flirtatiously with a college boy named…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend, Ethan, went missing after a wilderness survival trip on a deserted island.
I spent every single penny of my savings, searching for him like crazy, but found absolutely nothing.
Until two months later, on my way to work, I…
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English · Contemporary
My husband was sleeping with his company's intern.
He actually smuggled her into our apartment inside a giant suitcase just for some sick, kinky thrill.
In my past life, I woke up in the middle of the night to get a glass of water and…
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English · Contemporary
Three days before my wedding, I found out my brother and his family had moved into the master bedroom of my new house without my permission.
My mother said casually, "Austin has nowhere else to go. Let him have the master bedroom. You…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
My husband is a famous "clueless boy-dad" influencer on TikTok.
Once, he actually forgot our daughter in a shopping cart at the mall and walked three floors away before realizing it.
Another time, he held the umbrella entirely over…
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English · Contemporary
I spent three years caring for my comatose boyfriend after a horrific car accident.
But the moment he finally opened his eyes, he grabbed my best friend's hand and called her "wife."
My best friend blushed, accepted the title, and…
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English · Contemporary
An emergency dispatch came in at midnight. An apartment building was on fire, with a couple trapped inside.
When I burst through the flames, I saw Samantha, my wife of seven years, lying naked and wrapping her arms around another…
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English · Contemporary
I was slacking off at work when I stumbled across a juicy Reddit thread.
The title read: [Gen Z Intern Exposes the So-Called "Most Employee-Friendly" Company.]
As I scrolled through the details, my brow furrowed. The description…
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English · Contemporary
I was Julian’s first love.
But after years of marriage, he started looking for younger girls who looked just like me.
When the car crash happened, Julian’s first instinct was to shield me with his body.
Outside the emergency room,…
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English · Contemporary
My boyfriend was supposed to meet my parents today, but dinner time had passed, and he was nowhere to be seen.
I sent three Snapchats and made two FaceTime calls. No response.
In the private room of the restaurant, my parents asked me…
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English · Contemporary
In the middle of the night, Buster, the dog who always kept me company while I collected plastic bottles, was hit by a car running a red light.
Looking at Buster lying in a pool of blood, my whole body went numb. Shaking, I dialed…
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English · Contemporary
Frank Vance’s seafood warehouse almost went under during the off-season last year.
Every restaurant on the wharf ditched him for other suppliers. I was the only one who stayed.
I kept a locked-in order of three hundred thousand…
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English · Contemporary
After the hospital chief's daughter suffered a sudden heart attack and fell into a coma, my wife hid the surgery time from me.
She wanted her medical school junior, Julian, to take my place as the lead surgeon so he could get promoted…
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English · Contemporary · Thriller & mystery
My cousin, Tiffany, loved hooking up with random guys online and meeting them in person.
When she got assaulted, I begged her to call the cops. She refused.
When she got pregnant, I told her to get an abortion. She refused that…
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English · Contemporary
I worked my ass off for the company for an entire year. I closed an $80 million contract, but my year-end bonus was a measly $888.
Meanwhile, my boss Richard’s useless nephew, Chase, who did nothing but play video games at his desk all…
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English · Contemporary
When I was a child, Mom told me that I made my sister Chloe deaf by hitting her. Because of that, she said they owed Chloe ninety-nine Favoritism Coupon.
On my birthday, Chloe wanted a mango cake. She whipped out one of the cards, and…
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English · Contemporary
"This face of yours is an absolute embarrassment."
Julian grabbed the lipstick from my vanity, snapped it in half, and tossed it into the trash can.
Then, he unlocked his phone and shoved the screen right into my face.
On the screen,…
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English · Contemporary
The day before my wedding to Carter Vance.
He secretly used the wedding venue I had painstakingly prepared to hold a ceremony with the college girl he was keeping on the side.
When I showed up at the venue, Carter didn't look guilty…
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English · Contemporary
My daughter had a sudden heart attack and desperately needed $250,000 for a heart transplant.
But after my husband reunited with his first love, he became obsessed with the stock market. He used every single penny of our daughter's…
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English · Contemporary
At the class party after the SATs, someone suggested playing a game of "Expose Your Friends."
In the first round, the bottle spun and pointed at Chloe Jenkins and me.
She jumped at the chance to speak first.
"Sera never wears skirts…
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English · Contemporary
To steal my fortune, my husband, Marcus, and my best friend, Vivian, teamed up to ruin me.
They secretly slipped my hotel room keycard to a slimy male client.
Little did they know, I had already swapped my keycard with…
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