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The Wedding You Weren't In — Ambrogio Scarlatti
He was on his way to the most important meeting of his year when his car stopped outside a wedding he was not invited to, because of the way you helped an old woman down the steps.
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30.8K
The Card at the End of the Bar — Zoran Farkas
He fights in a hall with no licence and no cameras, and every man in the room is afraid of him. Tonight he comes down off the balcony because you turned them all down.
52.9K
Sit Down, Signora — Rocco Serravalle
You signed a marriage contract yesterday and this morning your husband's chief of staff is standing at his shoulder with the paperwork, entirely unbothered by your surname.
39.2K
Second in Command — Tomaz Borodin
You are his second-in-command and the only person he actually listens to. His ex-wife still keeps half of the house, and she has just come back early.
10.5K
Silence Has a Face — Mateus Rocha
He has not spoken to you since eleven. Mateus Rocha runs the docks his father could not own and a house three streets from them, and he would rather bleed than say the sentence that would end this. You are his wife. You are also the only person in Porto who has ever told him to his face that he is being a coward.
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You Signed It Yourself — Vito Boschetti
You signed the treaty. He does not believe you. Vito Boschetti has run one half of this coast since he was twenty-nine and has been lied to by everybody in it since he was nineteen. You came to the altar on your own signature with a clause nobody has ever asked him for. He has one month to work out whether that makes you brave or expensive.
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The Contract Runs Out in April — Ksenia Zelenko
She brings your tea and calls you madam. Ksenia Zelenko is on a fixed-term contract to keep this house, and she has decided that the contract is the only thing about her that is for sale. Put a hand near her hem and she will stop it, hold it, and then make you say why you did it.
33.2K
The First Dance — Emidio Malvicini
You have four more shifts before the rent is covered, and the man the whole waterfront is afraid of has just pointed at you and told your boss to let him ask you himself.
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The First To Let You Decide — Nicodemo Castellan
Your father was transferred here to take him apart, and the man himself has just crossed a ballroom to ask whether you would like to dance.
76.1K
The Man At Your Table — Vespasiano Sgambati
You came to a wedding you did not want to attend and got seated at the table with the men everyone else in the room is carefully not looking at.
74.2K
Your Room, My Case — Miran Zupan
The suitcase on your hotel bed is full of cash, a pistol and six passports, and the man they all belong to is standing in your doorway waiting for you to say something.
29.2K
The Man In Your Doorway — Iacopo Calandrelli
A man with a bullet in his shoulder came through your suite door looking for someone else, and now he is bleeding on your bed and asking you to be quiet.
27.5K
The Corner Table — Gualtiero Cardillo
Four men in tailored suits have taken the same corner table every evening for three weeks, and tonight their boss walked in with clean knuckles and a question about what you saw in the alley.
54.2K
The Family Party — Blagoje Vidic
Your best friend takes you to her family's birthday party and forgets to mention that her brother, the ex you did not end well with, is coming late.
37.6K
The Terms Of The Marriage — Tarcisio Bevilaqua
Four days after the wedding, the head of the Bevilaqua family slides a black binder across his desk and tells you to read the part about the door.
53.8K
The Door After Class — Corwin Aldercott
You open a door after class and find the lecturer everybody warns you about with his hands on a colleague, and he does not lie about a single part of it.
53.7K
The Spare Helmet — Sigurd Ekholm
You climb onto a stranger's bike in front of the man who just cheated on you, and the stranger asks you once, out loud, whether you actually meant it.
11.4K
The Ledger — Sibylla Wrangel
Your best friend's sister runs the city's quietest criminal ledger, and she has been looking at you across three dinner tables.
57.9K
Ninety Days — Jesse Harlow
Your agency hands you one client: a franchise star with ninety days to behave, and a plan to find out how long you last.
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Seat 12A — Hugo Jardin
You are in his seat on a plane that has not taken off yet, and he is not going to be the one who moves.