My ex-husband once told me, "It's just harmless fun." That's what he called his infidelity. But when he ripped the wallpaper off my walls after our divorce, karma decided it was her turn to have…

Fourteen years of marriage, two wonderful kids, and a life I thought was solid as stone. But everything I believed in came crashing down one evening when Stan brought her into our home. It was…

From the moment Nathan introduced us to his fiancée, I knew something was off. It wasn't that she wasn't sweet or lovely, because she was. Her name was Tessa, and she'd come to Chicago with…

Months after her husband Albert died, Vivienne started receiving her favorite flowers every week. None of her children or grandchildren had sent them, so they set up a surveillance camera to find out who did.…

Brian has spent over ten years living in peace and quiet in his neighborhood—until Tim moves in next door and becomes a constant nuisance. After their first disagreement, Tim retaliates by spray-painting an insult on…

I never imagined I would not be able to give my child a better life. When I got pregnant with Jace, I thought living in my late mother's old trailer was just temporary. The pregnancy…

Grief changes you in ways you never expect. Some days, it's a dull ache in your chest. Other days, it blindsides you like a sucker punch to the heart. That summer morning in my kitchen,…

I never knew my mother, and my father never spoke about her. All I knew was that she had been very beautiful, because of the picture that hung on my father's study wall, and that…