"Not all adoption diaries enjoy happy endings. Some of them are so painstakingly gruesome that they end up destroying more lives than building them. Ironically, how does one tell apart perpetrators from rescuers? We've read numerous stories about the miracle of adoption changing people's lives for the better. Many couples...

I met him two years ago. Right from the moment we met, he told me he liked me. I liked him too but there was one thing that mattered to me most. That was, whether or not he was married. I asked him, “Are you not married?” He answered, “Oh...

A few days ago I asked a male friend, “Can a guy propose to a girl he doesn’t like? He answered my question with a question; “What do you mean? You mean the guy doesn’t love the girl and yet proposes to her?” I answered, “Yeah, something like that. A...

The workshop, which had already become completely deserted, looked depressing. The men who both worked here and owned the establishment surveyed his possessions. On one hand, he was sad that the workshop was empty. On the other hand, he understood that it was all temporary. For many years, he had...

The pre-dawn mist slowly descended onto the weak field, settling on the damp ground and enveloping the young plants in its dense embrace. The sun's disc barely peeked over the horizon, then the first pink rays illuminated the sky, coloring the mist as it dispersed in various directions. Under the...

Amelia, from entering the old room at the end of the hallway. But one night, she heard something strange and decided to investigate later when Mark was not home. However, he caught her and revealed the truth. Mark grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, but he moved to New York for...

Mr. Karl Lowe had a bad reputation in his neighborhood after years of being a loner. But when he died, Corey stepped into his house and discovered what no one ever imagined. Corey grew up in Aurora, Colorado, but he moved to a different neighborhood after receiving his real estate...

We did it yesterday. Twice before the cock crowed. Early in the morning, he wanted it again but our second child woke up to get his plans thwarted. Two days ago we did it. Thrice before the break of dawn. The third one was very painful to me. I didn’t...

Americans now have a new company to break apart following the successful boycotts of Target and Bud Light. The Daily Mail reported Thursday that cosmetics giant Maybelline is using ugly bearded men to promote their new product. The company first had “makeup artist” Zak Taylor promote a summer product the brand had...

A man becomes worried when he sees his young daughter sneak out of the house every evening, so he decides to follow her and makes a surprising discovery. How well do we know our children? Do they live secret lives? Michael Rolson discovered that his daughter Tammy had been hiding...

At the beginning of the relationship, she would visit me and leave when it was getting late. The relationship was new. We were both trying to know each other while acting shy along the way. Sometimes I wanted her to sleep over but no matter how late she would leave....

After 6 years of fighting cancer, Abby's tiny body couldn't handle it anymore. Doctors said there wasn't anything else they could do and told her family to say their goodbyes. As they gathered around her one last time, though, Abby opened her eyes and said 7 words that left her...

A man discovers a shocking truth when he sees his wife come to pay her respects at her own funeral and follows her to find out why she did it."Get yourself together, Ted. You can't fall apart and cry. Not when your son is watching." Ted was trying to swallow...

When a young man learned about his father's demise, he rushed to attend the funeral, where his stepfamily wasn't expecting him. While everyone was silent, the late man's dog began barking at the coffin, revealing a secret the boy's stepmother had kept for seven years. "I want you to learn...

The last time we had a fight, he told me, “When we were dating and you were giving it to me from left and right, did you ever bother to ask if I had bathed or not? We could do it everywhere and not care because you were doing it...

Amanda’s husband, Eric, co-owned an IT company with his business partner, Michael. When her husband died, she heard a strange man at the funeral say that “everything was going according to plan.” But neither she nor Michael understood what that meant until they discovered Eric’s will. Eric’s passing was a...