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Marcus Hale had every chance in the world and wasted all of them. He drank, he gambled, he lied—and when his pregnant wife Claire Jensen was driven to the edge, he arrived too late to stop her. For twenty years afterward, even as he clawed his way to wealth and power, regret followed him like a shadow he could never outrun. Then, at the height of his success, a gunshot ended everything—and sent him back. Marcus wakes on the day it all began again: Claire alive, furious, and done with his empty

An house party reveals my girlfriend's true colors.

Some connections can’t be caught on an MRI. For the past few hours, their relationship was defined by cold stethoscopes, sterile rooms, and the rhythmic hum of diagnostic machinery. Dr. Lars is the city’s top radiologist—analytical, distant, and used to seeing people as a series of grayscale images. To him, Sara was just another file, a patient whose recovery he monitored with clinical detachment. But when the final results come back clear, the professional veil drops.

A solitary widower is rejuvinated, discovering what he has been missing when a young, oriental coed comes into his life. This is a revision and rewrite of a story "Good Things Come in Small Packages", by an unknown author.

Seven Army and Navy nurses arrive in Manila in 1941 expecting a peaceful posting. Within weeks, Pearl Harbor changes everything. As Bataan and Corregidor fall, they retreat into jungle hospitals, then Malinta Tunnel, then nearly three years of internment at Santo Tomas and Los Baños—starved, exhausted, and still nursing. One of them will not survive to see the dawn raid that finally sets them free. A tribute to the real Angels of Bataan and Corregidor, and what survival actually cost.

A loner and computer geek, Brandon escapes the noise of a wild, drunken grad party. Solitary and sober, he wanders down a lakeshore beach. The unexpected discovery of a crying girl leads to resolution of adolescent fantasies.

Emily goes for a midnight swim in the apartment pool. Maya is already there.

She wore an office dress that she had transformed into something more: a black pencil skirt that had ridden three centimeters higher than prudent when she sat down, a white silk blouse that revealed the outline of her lace bra, and silk stockings that shimmered under the yellowish lights of the car.

Strangers Jacob and Emily get soaked in an early spring shower and have to get out of their wet clothes.

Orphan joins military is too successful and draws attention of alphabet types, does Spec Ops first and gets medically retired out of active duty only to be recruited by the alphabet types. Survives a shitty mission and meets a female who is as bad ass as he is.