Sleep, marriage and an unexpected outcome after a long-suffering wife finally takes matters into her own hands.
This is the first part of a novel I’m writing. Two orphaned cousins, ignorant their whole lives of their parents, they finally are found by their family.
HURT IS A CRIME: This is a part of a short story sequence. All three stories act as complete short stories on their own. All three stories focus on a person that did something they are not so proud of and they begin to realize how their lives are about to change. The third one is about a man who is a player with a lot of kids. He has two kids with his current girlfriend. He consciously slept with her mother and must deal with the horrific aftermath.
HURT IS A CRIME: This is a part of a short story sequence. All three stories act as complete short stories on their own. All three stories focus on a person that did something they are not so proud of and they begin to realize how their lives are about to change. The second one is about a woman who is at odds with her younger sister because of the man her sister is about to marry. Trying to stop the wedding, she ends up uncovering a secret she did not see coming.
People lie to themselves all the time; they tell themselves they'll be okay or that their life isn't falling apart or that they'll make it out of this alive. They lie while the truth, a nasty, hungry, drooling maw, smiles in their face.
There is no description for the page that defines my degradation.