price26: Stories

The trailer he was supposed to take to its destination overturned before it got to him, so he got home a couple of days early. His wife's boyfriend was overnighting at his house. He ran, leaving his broken family behind him.

Blood is thicker than water, right up until the family member you always assumed had your back betrays you. Like you can't fix stupid, you can't ever forgive a treasonous sibling, nor a fiance who immediately believed your brother's lies. Annie couldn't let that kind of behavior slide.

When my older sister Becci moved up to junior high school, she quickly developed some issues that kinda prevented her behaving towards me like a decent human being. One day when I was fourteen she went way too far and framed me for stealing beer. Our father massively over-reacted. I took the nuclear option. No winners here; we all lost out.

He'd had a bad break-up with his university girlfriend; it had made him skittish around women. His best friends invited him down for a weekend; they had a girl they wanted him to meet. But their two guests already knew each other. (Written British English, some jargon.)

Leah had the Assistant District Attorney and her high-priced lawyer lover on her side. I didn't.

I found the toilet seat left up.

I was just sixteen when my daughter was conceived. As a single father, how do I stop her making the same mistake her mother made? How do I protect my baby girl from the pussy hounds out there?

It's not all sweetness and light growing up with your childhood sweetheart.....

Just a quick tale I dreamed up while stuck in traffic...

I went to watch a play and instantly fell for one of the actresses, a girl I knew I'd probably never see again. Sometimes your dreams can come true, even if the path of love is neither smooth nor straight.