Category: NB – Stories

As a single dad juggling work and two young daughters, Jack never expected to find a stranger’s homemade pancakes on his kitchen table one morning. When he discovers

When I asked my daughter who else she wanted to invite to her birthday party and she casually named a woman I’d never heard of, I felt my

When Calla finds a lace robe hidden in her husband’s closet, she assumes that it’s a romantic surprise. But her world turns upside down when she sees her

When my sister Clara called me sobbing late one night, I almost didn’t recognize her voice. After years of mocking my simple life and loving husband, karma had

When Nancy’s landlord demanded she and her three daughters vacate their rental home for a week, she thought life couldn’t get worse. But a surprise meeting with the

Christmas Eve started like any other holiday until my husband disappeared without explanation. The next morning, he came home holding a little girl, and with her, a secret

Living with my son and his unbearable wife was far from the peaceful arrangement I had imagined. But when the grumpy neighbor next door unexpectedly asked me to

Margaret loved her husband and did everything he asked of her, which was a lot. But for years, she hadn’t been on the receiving end of that love.

When my boots gave out during one of the harshest winters in years, I thought my husband, Greg, would step up and buy me new ones. Instead, he

When Sarah gets home from the usual errands with her kids, the last thing she expects is to hear her husband spilling his true feelings about her —