Category: Story

I never thought stopping for a crying baby on a cold morning would drag me from the street outside my minimum-wage cleaning job to the

I sat on the curb with rain pounding down like the sky itself wanted to bury me. Lily—three days old, barely the size of my

All my life, I wanted to be a dad. It wasn’t a casual wish or something I thought about once in a while — it

I begged the bikers who killed my husband to adopt my four children before I die. When I said the words out loud, standing in

When Lila cared for her dying grandmother, she never expected to inherit anything beyond memories. But inside an old couch, she discovered a secret that

“Lately, life has just simply not had a chance to slow down. The other night my husband and I left our house with no kids.

“Mom: ‘Hello?’ Me: ‘Hey, what are you doing?’ Mom:  ‘Nothing… who is this?’ Me: ‘It’s me.’ Mom: ‘I’m sorry, can you tell me who this is?’ Me: ‘Mom, it’s me, Nikki.

My name is Joren, and this is about Fiona—my daughter, my light, my world. At five, she’s a ball of energy. She asks the funniest

A man enters his favorite ritzy restaurant, and while sitting at his regular table he notices a gorgeous woman sitting at a table nearby all

My name is Chloe. I’m 42. I’m a single mom to an amazing 15-year-old boy, Caleb. And this… this is a story about family, art,