Relationship Fiction
68 Articles & Excerpts
Prologue
 I Say a Little Prayer
by E. Lynn Harris
There are times when I think that I, Chauncey Dion Greer, am passing through this life on my way to the life God really planned for me. Then, at other times, I think that God must have a wicked sense of humor. Who knew?
Longing
 The Love Spell. An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening
by Phyllis Curott
How do you know when it's real? I glanced over to find him smiling at me. I smiled back. He pulled his old Scout off the old gravel road, bumping along the tractor path at the edge of the field.
1 June 1991
 The Man of My Dreams
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Julia Roberts is getting married. It's true: Her dress will be an eight-thousand-dollar custom-made two-piece gown from the Tyler Trafficante West Hollywood salon, and at the reception following the ceremony, she'll be able to pull off the train
Christmas Memories
 Southern Fried Divorce
by Judy Conner
Not long after I became his ex-wife, that ex-husband brought me a .38 blue steel revolver and a brown fuzzy puppy. His unannounced arrival at my new bachelorette maisonette was not a complete surprise.
Seven Sisters
 Forever Sisters: Famous Writers Celebrate the Power of Sisterhood with Short Stories, Essays, and Memoirs
by Claudia O'Keefe
A woman I worked with, named Ellery, was having a baby. Addison, her sister, was giving the shower, and since I volunteered to help, I was asked to arrive an hour earlier than all the other guests.
Chapter One
 Wolves in Chic Clothing
by Carrie Doyle Karasyov, Jill Kargman
Manhattan was in a tailspin. Literally. The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was in town, and if that didn't clog up midtown's grid of streets enough, it was also Fashion Week. There were bitches everywhere.
The Funeral
 Fifth Born
by Zelda Lockhart
When we pulled off in the station wagon to head home to St. Louis, Granmama stood in the wake of dirt and rocks waving, her black hair blowing violently in the wind of the storm that we were leaving.
In which I accidentally marry and am very nearly seduced by the wrong man
 The Accidental Duchess
by Jessica Benson
I married the wrong man. And by this I do not mean, as people so often do, any of the more cryptic things that you might imagine: That I awoke one morning to the realization that my husband and I had grown apart.
Chapter One
 An Accidental Greek Wedding
by Carol Grace
She was seasick. Her first trip to the Greek Islands, and Jane Atwood's stomach was pitching and rolling along with the blue Aegean Sea. She leaned against the railing of the ferry, wedged among the tourists oohing and ahhing over the view of the island
Chapter One
 The Harris Men
by R. M. Johnson
'Mr. Harris, I'm sorry, but you have cancer,' the thin, white-haired doctor had told him. The man said it without emotion, without sympathy, without the slightest look of sadness in his eyes.
Chapter 1
 The Jewels of Tessa Kent
by Judith Krantz
Agnes Patricia Riley Horvath, whose daughter, Teresa, would become Tessa Kent, lay in bed at three in the morning. She had been awakened, as usual, by obsessive, angry thoughts about her husband, Sandor, and the way in which he dominated the upbringing
The Walker and His Family
 Duane's Depressed
by Larry McMurtry
Two years into his sixties, Duane Moore; a man who had driven pickups for as long as he had been licensed to drive - parked his pickup in his own carport one day and began to walk wherever he went.
Chapter One
 An Accidental Woman
by Barbara Delinsky
Within seconds of coming awake, Micah Smith felt a chill at the back of his neck that had nothing to do with the cold air seeping in through the window cracked open by his side of the bed. It was barely dawn.
How does a person reenter a life she left nine years earlier?
 Summer of Roses
by Luanne Rice
Knowing that there had been a relentless search for her, that her picture had been plastered on the front pages of every newspaper in Connecticut and beyond? Understanding that every local police department remained on the lookout for her?
The Perfect Triangle
 Instant Love
by Jami Attenberg
Holly is getting her makeup done by the burnout girl she befriended at work. They're in the bathroom at the back of the pharmacy, and Shelly's dusting one perfect pastel-colored triangle on each eyelid. Same as hers.
The Bats
 Arranged Marriage: Stories
by Chitra Divakaruni
For the young girls and women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change, of starting anew, is both as terrifying and filled with promise as the ocean that separates them from their homes in India.
Prologue
 Immediate Family
by Eileen Goudge
'Looks like the gang's all here.' Stevie Light, all five feet two inches of her honing in like a heat-guided missile, managed to jostle her way to the front of the crowd, cameraman in tow, to where the director of the extended care facility, a stout
One
 A Piece of Normal
by Sandi Kahn Shelton
Speaking of kisses, I know this may sound weird, but in the past month, I have set up three first dates for Teddy, my ex-husband. I'm not sure he's had any kisses - restorative or otherwise - from any of the three women, but at least on tonight's date
Part 1
 How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him anymore. David isn't even in the car park with me. He's at home, looking after the kids, and I have only called him to remind him that he should write a note
Mira
 Lost Hearts in Italy
by Andrea Lee
The call comes three or four times a year. Always in the morning, when Mira's husband and children have left the house, and she is at work in her study, in the dangerous company of words - words that are sometimes docile companions and at other times
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