Author: cuongtr

“Just deal with it, Emily.” Those were the words my boyfriend chose while my car sat dead on an empty Nevada highway and steam rolled…

My younger sister was on one knee in front of my fiancé when she looked straight at me and smiled. Not nervously. Not apologetically. She…

“Sign it tonight, Ethan, or by tomorrow morning everyone you work with is going to know what kind of man you really are.” My sister…

My mother had already invited the woman she wanted me to marry before she bothered asking whether I wanted to meet her. I learned that…

The boy did not scream when he reached the motorcycles. That was the first thing Cole Mercer remembered. He simply stumbled beneath the red neon…

“YOU’RE CHECKING THE WRONG TIMING MARKS.” The six words came from the darkest corner of Mason Reed’s garage. Nobody laughed. Nobody moved. Even the tattooed…

“You’re late.” Those were the first words the little girl said to me. Not hello. Not help me. Not who are you. Just, “You’re late.”…

“DON’T TOUCH MY HAIR!” Twelve-year-old Ethan Mercer screamed so loudly that every fork inside Maple Street Diner seemed to stop at once. Grace Whitmore’s hand…

The first thing Ethan Mercer heard was not the crash. It was the woman screaming from inside the trunk. For several seconds, nineteen-year-old Ethan stood…