Growing up I have often heard people whisper behind successful single women. “She has money but she has never been married. It’s because men are afraid to approach her.” “She is doing well in life but she can’t keep a man. Her success has caused her to forget her place...

Andrea West met her future husband during her senior year. She and Ben struck up a whirlwind romance and bought a house in Andrea's hometown in Virginia shortly after graduating. They had an idyllic love story right out of a romantic movie. Everything was perfect between them. They were in...

I went to live with an aunt as a result of my father’s passing. This aunty made life so unbearable for me and I always missed my dad. I missed the care, attention, and affection he always gave me. I craved it so much it hurt. I started looking for...

"Bus drivers see hundreds of people every week. Some of them are happy, while others are sad. There are those who look like they are always on the rush, while others look distracted and lost. Of all these people, bus drivers have a set that they call their regulars. These...

My friend, Berlinda’s mother was also a mother to me when she was alive. The day she died everything stopped for me. I felt like a piece of me was missing. It felt like I lost someone who was more than just a mother to a friend. She was a...

Young Braden was accompanied by his mother one day to shop at major U.S food chain Walmart. They hadn't been there long, however, before his mom was struck with panic when she realized Braden had disappeared. Losing a child, even if only momentarily, is every parent's worst nightmare. Of course,...

I went to school with Dufie. From SHS to the university, we were together. I had a boyfriend when I was in SHS first year. She also had a boyfriend—he was a man actually. He was our science teacher. The only reason she dated the man was that the man...

I walked into an eatery one afternoon to order takeout. While I waited for my food I kept busy with my phone. A man walked up to me with determination on his face. He smiled and said “Hello my name is Victor. I have been trying to get your attention...

"She gave herself to a bomb in the hope of having a child. And when she took a DNA test, she was shocked to find out who the father was. Alice turned off her work computer and looked at her watch. It was almost eight in the evening, and she...

Arriving home from work earlier than usual, the man saw his wife tying up her stepdaughter in the barn and taking the men there. The tall grass, which reached the woman's waist, swayed slowly in the quiet wind. Spikes that bumped against each other faintly made a pleasant snapping sound,...

Mary was sitting in the pantry today. Her stepmother had guessed again, which meant that she would sit there until morning. Mary wasn't offended; she was even glad when all those who came to her stepmother's house got drunk. Mary had no peace; they all tried to pinch her, tease...

Christy felt sick. Her body ached, and she wanted sour cucumbers. If muscle aches were not a harbinger of illness, then pickles were. It was the first sign that her temperature was rising. The girl wasn't feeling well. She felt nauseous and had a terrible craving for cucumbers. The illness...

Kenneth was a typical villager who worked in the fields for many years. He worked the land, planted and cultivated crops, and then sold them to his neighbors and lived off the money. All in all, when you’re an unpretentious old man in your 60s, that’s enough to be happy....

We have two kids. The first is seven years old and the second is five years old. To me, the greatest blessings of my youth are these two kids. I’m the only kid of my parents. According to the story my mother told me, she suffered before she got me....

We had dated for two years and had started talking about marriage when one day, I found a condom wrapper under the bed of my boyfriend. I brought it to his notice immediately. The wrapper was in my hand when I asked him, “What is this doing in your room?”...

I don’t know how we became friends on Facebook. I don’t remember sending her a friend’s request or responding to her friend’s request. I woke up one day and we were friends on Facebook. “Or maybe she was already planted on my app the day I installed it,” I said...