Category: Stories

For as long as I can remember, Grandma had gifted me little plastic sheep with a bell every year for my birthday, and for just as long, I never understood why. A…

They said perfect families didn’t exist. Well, that was a blatant lie. I was a single mother, raising my daughter Mia on my own. Mia’s father had walked out on me when…

For years, it had been just Toby and me. His father had slowly disappeared from our lives when Toby was just a baby, leaving me to raise our son alone. I threw…

After my divorce, I didn’t just want a fresh start. I needed it. That’s how I ended up in a quiet cul-de-sac in a different state, in a house with a white…

I never thought my life would change so drastically after my mother’s death. Her house, with its creaky floors and faint scent of lavender, had always been a symbol of warmth and…

“I can’t believe she showed up,” Ethan grumbled under his breath while holding his bride’s hands. They were on the altar, and he had just noticed that his mother-in-law, Ada, had just…

There are two things I’ve always known for sure: I love my son more than air, and my sister Lily was born with a heart too big for her chest. Lily has…

When Jason told me he had to fly out of state for a last-minute marketing conference, I didn’t question it. He’s in sales. Conferences happen. He even showed me the email with…

Last month, I served dinner on paper plates with plastic forks from the dollar store. Not because we were moving. Not because we were camping. Because my husband, Derek, said we had…

I initially agreed to pay my mom to watch over my son full-time, but my husband disagreed, seeing it as excessive. However, the situation took an unexpected turn, escalating tension within the…