Author: Vase My
If anyone had told me my 13-year-old son was hiding thousands of dollars in his room, I would’ve laughed. Jake? The same kid who still struggled to match his socks and spent his allowance on Pokémon cards? But that was before everything changed. It started on a slow Sunday, the kind where the ticking of the clock fills the silence. Jake was at his friend Noah’s house, and I was cleaning—mindless, repetitive, comforting. Until I picked up Waffles. Waffles was Jake’s piggy bank. A ceramic dog with a tongue sticking out and a coin slot in its head. He’d had…
They say weddings bring out the best in people — but sometimes, they reveal the worst. From the moment Emma got engaged to Liam, she knew the biggest hurdle wouldn’t be the planning, the guest list, or the budget — it would be her mother. Ava had always been the center of every room she walked into. Beautiful, confident, and used to getting her way, Ava saw Emma’s wedding not as a celebration of her daughter’s love, but as an opportunity to shine once again. At first, Emma dismissed her mother’s subtle hints — compliments about how well white looked…
They laughed at me. The intern with too much heart and not enough sense. I was Sarah Collins—23, idealistic, and clinging to my dream of making it big in Manhattan. My internship at Halstead & Grant Financial was a ticket to that dream. Or so I thought. In reality, I was invisible. No one cared that I graduated top of my class. To the executives, I was just another girl in flats fetching overpriced coffee. Six different drink orders, six different personalities. I was a shadow with a name tag, a ghost in a pencil skirt. Until the rain came.…
The sun was warm on my shoulders as I sat on the porch, flipping through a magazine, when Linda came charging out with a glint in her eye and an envelope in her hand. “It’s here!” she said breathlessly. “David and Emily’s wedding invite.” I smiled. David and I had served together in the Coast Guard—three years, a lot of storms, and even more stories. He was as no-nonsense as they came. His fiancée, Emily, from what I’d seen, matched him in quiet strength. They were a perfect fit. But Linda’s expression was shifting—from curiosity to straight-up disbelief. “Okay,” she…
Carly Morgan had never believed in fairy tales. Life had taught her that magic didn’t happen for girls like her—not when your shoes were secondhand and your mom juggled two jobs just to keep the lights on. But that spring, a little flicker of hope had crept in. Prom season had arrived. While her classmates talked about limos, glittering gowns, and designer shoes, Carly had kept quiet. But she wanted to go—desperately. She wanted to feel beautiful, just for one night. Not invisible. Not poor. Just… seen. And then came the envelope. It arrived over breakfast one Friday morning. Her…
The chapel was wrapped in hush, the kind that presses against the walls and leaves no room for breath. Mourners sat stiff in the pews, surrounded by the suffocating perfume of lilies and unanswered questions. No one spoke above a whisper. No one dared break the fragile quiet that hung over the white coffin at the altar. Inside, or so they believed, lay Lily Thompson. Ten years old. Bright. Artistic. Gone. Four days ago, she’d vanished during a school hike in the woods. By the time the search party arrived, they found her glove near a river, a torn scrap…
Derek Ross lived a life built on shadows—shadows cast not by the past, but by a truth he buried long ago. In his final year of high school, Derek was the golden boy—charming, intelligent, destined for success. But there was one thing his classmates, teachers, and even his girlfriend didn’t know: they had never met his mother. He never invited friends over. Never spoke of family dinners or weekend outings. When asked about his parents, Derek would brush it off, saying they were “away on mission work” or “deeply religious.” Lies came easier than shame. Because Derek’s mother, Elise Ross,…
The night Mary Smith found out she was pregnant, she thought it would be the beginning of a love story. She didn’t know it would become a war. Mary had never been reckless. The only daughter of a schoolteacher and a tailor, she was raised on principles: dignity, humility, and hard-earned dreams. She graduated university with honors and a future bursting with hope. But dreams don’t pay rent. After months of rejections, Mary took a job waiting tables at a five-star restaurant in Abuja. Not glamorous, but it kept the lights on. And that’s when he walked in. Sam Williams.…
My mom’s wedding was supposed to be her second chance at joy.Instead, it almost became my aunt’s stage for sabotage. Let me tell you how one white dress nearly ruined everything—and how I made sure it didn’t. Five Years Before the Wedding Tragedy doesn’t knock. It kicks down the door. Five years ago, my dad died in a car accident on a rainy Tuesday. One minute, we were waiting for him to come home with takeout, and the next, we were identifying his personal belongings. I was thirteen. Old enough to understand loss, but too young to process it. My…
When Aaron told his friends he was marrying a woman nearly two decades older, the laughter was immediate — and cruel. “She must be loaded,” one sneered. “No,” Aaron said quietly. “She’s layered.” At 26, Aaron wasn’t interested in chasing flings or playing emotional roulette. What intrigued him was silence between the noise — depth that came with time. Celeste, at 44, had that in spades. She was polished but not flashy, mysterious but not distant. She didn’t rush to speak — she measured her words like poetry. The first time they met, she listened more than she talked. By…