Category: Stories

My name’s Lily, and I’m 16 now. When I was ten, cancer took my mother piece by piece, stealing her from me one treatment at a time. Those years still feel like…

I’m 16 years old, and I’ve known for as long as I can remember that I was adopted. My adoptive parents, the ones I’ve always just called Mom and Dad, never kept…

My grandma, Margaret, was the sweetest woman you could ever meet. The kind who left bowls of food out for stray cats, spent her evenings crocheting blankets for the children’s hospital, and…

Kieran had never been a man of many regrets, but lately, the silence was starting to echo louder than it used to. Back in his younger days, he was the kind of…

Lily had learned to live on very little. At 20 years old, she had mastered the art of stretching every dollar. She could make a single bag of rice last an entire…

They say grief changes a person, but watching my mother fall in love with a predator was like watching someone drown in slow motion while you’re handcuffed to the shore. I’m 29,…

I never imagined I would live to see my ex-husband marry my daughter. And I certainly never expected the truth to come crashing down on their wedding day — delivered by my…

I didn’t realize I was selling my body until the check cleared. And even then, I told myself it was love. Because that’s how deep the lie ran. My husband, Ethan, didn’t…

I’m 38 and divorced. One day, he was complaining about the Wi-Fi. The next, he was gone. That last part still doesn’t feel real. I’m a mom of two teenagers, Mia and…

“Emily, are you ready? My mom will watch Sophia, so we have the whole day.” I tied my shoes as my wife came down the stairs. She looked nervous, brushing invisible wrinkles…