Contemporary stories
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English · Contemporary
In the third year of my marriage to Victor, his first love, Aurora, came back to the country.
For her sake, he even spat cruel words at me:
"She didn’t do anything wrong. Don’t be so vicious."
Fine. Just as he wished, I was done…
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English · Contemporary
My mother was assaulted by a vagrant on her way to take me to the hospital for a high fever. Shattered and crying, she fell into the river and drowned.
Blaming me for her death, my father and brother channeled all their hatred toward…
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English · Contemporary
My mother took my life just to please my stepfather.
My stepfather’s son saw the robot-shaped inhaler I used to save my life during asthma attacks. He cried and demanded to have it.
My stepfather glanced at my mother. Without…
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English · Contemporary · Inspiring stories
I maxed out my personal credit card to entertain our biggest client, drinking top-shelf whiskey until my stomach burned, just to secure a million-dollar contract for the company.
But the finance department rejected my expense report.…
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English · Contemporary
It had been five years since my fiancé and my billionaire brother dumped me in the slums.
Now, they had finally found me. And the first thing they asked was if I knew what I did wrong.
I nodded numbly. "I know. I was wrong."
Five years…
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English · Contemporary
My garage became my neighbor's free parking spot.
The roller shutter door was broken for three months, and Marcus's black Audi sat in my garage for those entire three months.
"Sweetheart, your door won't close anyway. And I see you…
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English · Contemporary
My grandma is famous for "getting confused."
I told her not to touch my work laptop. She immediately took it to a pawn shop, sold it for pocket change, and got me fired and blacklisted from my industry.
When I confronted her in tears,…
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English · Contemporary
When I was four, Julian and I were kidnapped together.
To protect my little brother, I ended up with a broken leg that never healed right.
When the police finally found us, Julian was crying, curled up in my arms.
I forced myself…
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English · Contemporary
We had been married for seven years. Yet, my wife’s childhood best friend, Julian, moved right into the new townhouse I had just bought for our daughter.
He held up the deed in front of my face, wearing a smug grin. "What bond could…
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English · Contemporary
My wife won a $5 million lottery. Right after cashing it, she demanded a divorce and wanted me to leave with absolutely nothing.
I agreed. But on our way to the courthouse, a truck flipped over and crushed our car. At the exact moment…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
On Christmas Eve, my parents left me home alone again, claiming they had to work overtime for triple pay.
Thinking about how they had done this for the past twenty years, I couldn't stand the cold, empty house anymore. I packed some…
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English · Contemporary · Thriller & mystery
At three in the morning, a piercing ringtone shattered my sleep. It was the ER.
On the other end, Nurse Brenda’s voice was frantic. "Dr. Vance, you need to get down here right now! We have two bizarre patients. Their arms... they’re…
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English · Contemporary · School
Brooke Vance, the intern at my company, did something to my bank account. No matter how much money I deposited, my balance always magically reset to five dollars.
In my past life, my biggest dream was to buy a starter condo near the…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
When I was seven months pregnant, I decided to go to a local boutique to pick out some baby supplies.
Peering through the shelves, I froze. Across the aisle, my husband was leaning down, gently tucking a stray lock of hair behind a…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
A neck injury caused my vocal cords to close up, leaving me suddenly unable to speak.
To help find a cure, my husband, Carter, threw himself into research and medical studies.
The day he returned from a medical exchange program at…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
This was the twentieth time I threatened Ethan Sterling with divorce.
But this time, my best friend, Chloe, didn’t try to stop me.
Usually, she would do everything in her power to hold me back. She would even run to Ethan’s office…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
At my birthday party, I had an accidental one-night stand with Ethan, the boy next door I’d chased for ten years.
When I woke up, he was already getting dressed, looking down at me with cold disgust.
"This is a really cheap trick,…
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English · Contemporary · Rebirth
A coworker said she had gotten her period and stained her pants, and asked if I had brought disposable underwear and pants.
I said no.
Then I stood up and shouted across the entire office:
“Maya stained her pants with blood. Who has…
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English · Romance · Contemporary
While my mafia husband was taking a shower, I suddenly received a provocative text message from an unknown number.
[77 times in his office, 88 times in his Maybach, 99 times at the Hilton.]
[Your husband said I’m a hundred times…
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English · Contemporary
On the eve of our wedding, my girlfriend, Angelica, insisted on throwing a bachelorette party despite my strong objections.
She invited all of her ex-boyfriends to stay up all night with her. She even messaged me to "reassure"…
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English · Contemporary
On the day I booked my premium MedSpa package, my coworker, Vivian, leaned over my desk, staring at my screen with pure envy in her eyes.
Over the weekend, she suddenly sent me a message on Snapchat: "Is that MedSpa you always go to…
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English · Contemporary
After I secured the company's biggest offshore contract with my own skills and landed the full-time offer, the new intern actually exposed me at the company-wide meeting.
"Attention, everyone!"
"Aurora has no real talent at all!…
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English · Contemporary
I was going on a road trip with my boyfriend, Phillips, but when I got into the passenger seat, I realized there was a girl already sitting in the back.
Phillips smiled and explained, "This is Penny. She’s heading the same way for the…
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English · Contemporary
Ever since we were kids, my sister, Chloe, loved stealing my things.
From a tiny hairclip to our parents' love.
Today, she caught me holding hands with Julian Vance, the school's golden boy, in the secluded pathway behind the campus…
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