Relationship Fiction
68 Articles & Excerpts
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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
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