Category: Stories

Relationships can be quite the maze sometimes, especially when one of the people involved tends to have unreasonable demands. One Bright Side reader wrote to us with his dilemma, writing to us…

At school, our literature teacher was a real devil — strict, cold, and always looking for ways to assert her power. One day during class, she noticed a small notebook on a…

I never thought I’d become visible to Daniel, the handsome and charming head of my department. For three years, I’d watched him from behind my computer screen, admiring how he commanded every…

On our 10th anniversary, I believed my husband’s promise to “handle dinner.” Dressed up and waiting for a romantic surprise, I was stunned when a takeout delivery arrived — for him. He…

As a kid, I once pretended to have a stomachache to skip school. I wasn’t a great liar, and my grandma, who was watching me that day, could tell something was off….

— Madam, you don’t have a ticket. Please leave the bus, — the driver snapped, glaring at the frail woman in an old coat who was barely holding onto the handrail to…

My daughter screamed that I ruined her life and said she wanted to live with her stepmother instead. I was no longer the mother she needed. On her birthday, she told me…

When my mother-in-law dumped five kids on my doorstep without warning, I could have called her to rage or begged my husband to handle it. Instead, I chose a different path. My…