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"Good evening, listeners. Tonight we hear the third installment with Joe Williams, author of 500 Annies. If you've listened to the last two installments, you know that he came to write the book after h...

"Good evening, listeners. Tonight we broadcast the second installment of our interview with Joe Williams, author of '500 Annies'. In case the you missed the first broadcast, here is a quick recap. J...

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It was a Monday morning and we were sitting at the kitchen table. We had finished eating breakfast and I was drinking my coffee and reading the morning paper. My wife Bea said: "Would you put the pa...

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-Tyson Sommers signed the last of the documents Jason gave him. They were necessary if Jason was to handle this particular portfolio. That portfolio was one of the biggest Ty was responsible for. It in...

-Bill Trebelov stood frozen and helpless, watching his beloved wife snuggle warmly into the arms of their next door neighbor, Roger. Emily smiled so brightly, she seemed to illuminate from within. She ...

-About 5:30 on Sunday evening, Beverly walked in the front door, dropped her purse and keys on the wingback chair, and headed down the hall to the master bedroom. I don't know for sure if she saw me si...

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It was 5:35 a.m. and I was sitting in a booth at the Village Inn. I was sipping coffee and waiting for Rachel to bring me my pancakes with a side of bacon. As I refreshed my cup from the pot on the tab...

-Bob awoke at 4 AM and lay there staring at a shaft of light that had eluded the drawn curtains. The only sound was his wife's rhythmic breathing. His meeting wasn't until that evening but he was too e...

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-Nancy Moore was 28 years old and worked in the accounting department of an insurance company. It was 3:00 p.m. when she got a call from her husband, Jack. "Hi Nancy, are you working overtime today?...

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Jodie and I spent our honeymoon in America, the jolly old US of A. Actually I had wanted to go to the West Indies, maybe Martinique, but of course I was out-voted, and as frequently happens I didn't...

There's no good way to discover that your wife has had sex with another man, but believe me, some are worse than others. But surely, the way that I found out must be the very worst of all. It was a ...

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I SMILED AT my daughter-in-law, Sara, accepting the mimosa cocktail she held out to me. "Thanks, sweetie." I took a sip, enjoying the naughtiness of drinking the mix of champagne and orange juice...

It would soon be our eleventh anniversary and my wife, Jenny, and I were looking forward to celebrating it on that upcoming Saturday. Being partners in business and being constantly on the road togethe...

Dear Jeff, By the time you read this I will have left you. I know this is kind of cheesy leaving you a Dear John letter, but I knew there would be a horrible scene that I frankly just don't want ...

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And ambushed her cheating ass! "Chris! What are you doing home?" Angela, my wife of twenty-eight years asked. She had just stepped through the garage door and saw me sitting at our kitchen table,...

Donna took a deep breath. She straightened her shoulders, blinked back a threatened tear from her eye and reached deep inside herself to a reservoir of strength she had never known she had. With her he...

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I kind of expected it, but I wasn't as emotionally prepared as I thought. The slights, the disrespect, the absolute refusal when it came to any kind of intimacy, all pointed to the same thing. Sh...

My name is Michael Barron. My wife's name is Sofia Dawes Barron. I am the Executive Editor of the Chicago American Globe. She is the Senior Vice-President of Gravely Publishing. We have two children, M...

Friday dawned cold in Chicago, almost as cold as in my house. The kids flew in from the East and West coast. My son brought his soon-to-be fiance with him. I hoped he had made the right decision. This ...

I should have seen it coming. Life was too perfect, especially at that moment. It was a Friday night on a beautiful summer day. My Corona was icy cold as it slid down my throat. The Cubs were beatin...

Who would have thought that the birth of my first grandchild would lead to the possible destruction of my 24-year marriage to Jane? I'm sitting in the back of this rented utility van, just up the st...

It was pretty easy, actually. once I got the proof. I suspected my second wife of something...something I couldn't put my finger on. You know the feeling when something isn't right but you can't say...

I was beyond pissed when she breezed through the door three hours late. "Where the hell have you been? I had to get Chad ready and take him to school. Bobby is pissed and I need to get to work." She...

"Did you really mean it?" I looked over the table at her. I was having lunch with my wife's best friend. And a good friend to me, when it comes down to it. "Mean what, honey?" "That night, whe...

Chapter 1 - Discovery Martha and I love to linger in bed a few minutes every morning after the alarm-clock rings. After so many years, we should know better. These warm lazy extra minutes in bed mus...

I had ridden with my best friend, Bill Jackson, to a golf tournament near Bloomsburg. We had played in a captain and crew fund raiser for his alma mater's basketball team. Two of his old frat buddies m...

I sensed that something was bothering Paula almost as soon as she came through the door. It's something you pick up after almost twenty years of marriage. "Is something wrong, Paula?" I asked as I w...

I squeezed my Harley between two parked cars and rumbled across the sidewalk and stopped near an old oak tree. Every eye was on me as I dropped the kickstand and stepped away from the bike. It gave me ...

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Kate and I were discussing the many challenges families now face with the advent of DNA testing. After reading a recent news story of one family's surprising results, we came up with the following tale...

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I had been looking forward to the first day of rifle deer season much as I used to look forward to Christmas when I was a kid. It always falls on the first Monday after Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania and...

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I saw him standing in the back. I hadn't noticed him come in, and I was completely shocked to see him -- here -- now -- ever. Honestly, I believed that he was actually dead. His sudden appearance left ...

I had been thinking about it for some time. I was in upper management at my company. My salary was six figures and I was enjoying the fruits of many years of hard work and dedication to my job. My only...

I sat, waiting. I knew her well. I should after fourteen years of marriage. Her need to control every situation would prompt her to hurry home, do damage control, would overpower everything else. I ...

Laura started unpacking her suitcase and wondered how soon her husband Shawn would arrive. He had surprised her with a Bahamas cruise as a way to rekindle their marriage. Talk about a surprise! He only...

I sat at the table, intermittently looking at my watch and the notes of my prepared speech in front of me. By now it was purely habit. I knew the words I wanted to use by heart and had done for some we...

Dave is one of the bravest, strongest characters I have ever met. He is a man of few words and so it falls to me to tell his remarkable story. Let me tell you from the outset, I forgive you in advance ...

"Nice to meet you on such a happy occasion, Mr. Brown. I'm Doctor Simms. I believe you've been dealing with Doctor Smith until now. She's on a sabbatical in Europe at the moment." "Pleased to meet y...

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My head was suddenly splitting; a quick searing pain just behind my eyes and spreading fast and rapidly increasing in intensity. Fuck this hurt bad. My vision blurred and my eyes ached as I sat a...

I was not in the best of moods when I finished putting my tools in my pick-up truck at the end of that Thursday afternoon. The client I had been working with over the previous two weeks did not seem to...

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I was always fascinated by the large glass panels which separated the airplanes and the passenger terminals at airports. I couldn't imagine how they manufactured pieces of glass that large, and how the...

My wife Maya and I had been married for not quite 3 years and were still in the honeymoon phase of our marriage when I got the shock of my life. At the time, I didn't believe we could have gotten along...

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Jesus Christ! Could anything else go wrong... the worst period of my life seem to have no end. Surely things can't keep going downhill, I have got to catch a break somewhere along the line. Work is now...

It all started to fall apart when my fifteen-year-old daughter, Shelly. received one of those DNA kits for Christmas. I don't even remember who gave it to her. She was all excited as she carefully fill...

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I was driving down I-225 when my life changed. Actually when my life went to hell would be more accurate. I had just dropped my wife off at work. She had taken her car into the dealership the day previ...

I wasn't expecting it, but at least she had the decency to confront me and not screw around until I caught her. I really didn't know what to say. Was I mad? Yes. Was I confused? Yes. Was I going to try...

You Always Regret Jodie Morgan moved in across the street from us when she was fourteen years old. For a fifteen-year-old boy, it was love at first sight. There was no 'cute meet'. From the beginnin...

You know how you recognise somebody by the way they walk? Well, I recognised the lady walking into the hotel, she walked and carried herself exactly like my wife, Karen. It was dark with just the light...

Not much background is needed, but the basic facts are crucial to understand what happened after the defining event. I'm Grant Oster. While in graduate school getting my M Sc. degree in chemistry I met...

It was going to be a theme running through some of my stories within LW of. 'You can love two people at the same time. But you have to choose.' But I have decided to make it a series. Sometimes it's th...

Here I am sat in a gaol cell on my last day inside.  I'm actually quite happy that I'm sat here at the end of my stretch. I learnt a lot from the old lags in here. I think the story that led me to this...

I hated the rain. I sat in the cab of the truck watching it hit the windshield and listening to it bang on the roof. It wasn't a nice soft summer rain; it was a gully washer. When the wind blew, I coul...

My therapist told me writing this would help me heal, so I'm putting it into words and posting this on an anonymous site, even though many years have passed since it happened. I have no idea if anyone ...

Friday, March 17, 2045 It was a few minutes before midnight, Brittany Danner was in Dublin, Ireland at the Celtic Harp, a pub in the tourist areas a half mile or so from the Guinness Factory. She wa...

My four best non-family friends are Grant, Aaron, Jill and Amber. Grant is a domestic law attorney. He is my doubles partner in tennis and five years older than I am. We have had many discussions ab...

This isn't a story about a police interrogation team; the title refers to me, Brad Owen, at different times in my life. I guess most people are born "good guys." According to my parents I was a good...

There's no reason to give a complete background of my life or describe everything about me to relate my tale. The only salient facts are: that I spent my life until I was twenty six having women chase ...