My name is Cassandra Rhys. I’m 30 years old, a Colonel in the United States Army, and tomorrow morning, I’ll sit across from my father and brother during a crucial defense contract review. What they don’t know is that I’m the Pentagon liaison with final sign-off authority for the entire project. It’s been five years…
Tonight, I’m back for dinner. My mother will beam over Ethan’s promotion, my dad will nod approvingly, and someone will ask me if I’m “still deployed somewhere.” I won’t argue. I won’t correct them. Because tomorrow, when their CEO refers to me as “Colonel Rhys” in a room full of executives, that moment of realization…
The camera lingered on Emily’s hands as she tightened the last bolt on the old fuel injector, her movements steady and precise, her brow damp with focus. Anyone watching would have assumed she was a seasoned mechanic, yet Emily’s knowledge came from a source most wouldn’t expect. Her father, Don Aurelio, had been a master…
Life, however, had other plans. Emily married Brandon when she was twenty-seven. He wasn’t interested in cars, but he admired her independence and laughed at her stubborn streak. For a while, they lived happily enough, but after the birth of their daughter Sophia, things began to shift. Brandon grew distant, dismissing Emily’s passion for mechanics…
The boy cried out in surprise: — Ouch! Stop, it hurts! But the woman didn’t stop. The boy began to cry, and only then did the mother notice what was happening. Taking off her headphones, she turned sharply and shouted: — What are you doing?! The passenger looked at her coldly and said: — My…
On the bus, a little boy was kicking the seat in front of him and disturbing the other passengers, while his mother was busy with her phone: but suddenly one of the passengers did something unexpected On the bus sat a mother and her young son. As soon as they took their seats, the woman…
But something about it felt… off. Suddenly, the dog sped up and overtook the bus at a crazy pace. It stopped right in the middle of the road and started barking, growling. The driver had no choice but to slam the brakes. The tires screeched, the bus jerked and stopped. — What’s happening?! — Why…
The bus was driving along its usual route when suddenly, out of nowhere, a dog appeared and started running alongside it: everyone was shocked when they found out the reason Every morning, it followed the same route. The yellow bus, line 318. The driver was a calm man, always on time, always on schedule. The…
After 10 years in prison, the man was finally released and went straight to the grave of his late fiancée: but when he bent over the tombstone, he saw something horrifying For ten long years, the man had lived behind bars. His life had stopped that very evening, on the night before his wedding, when…
I stood in the bathroom, opening the plastic bag with trembling hands. Inside was heavy metal. Not jewelry, not money. A weapon. — Oh my God… — the words slipped from my lips. — Is this… your son’s? He nodded, his eyes full of worry. — Yes. And that’s not even the worst part. I…