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Two Days Before — Émile Ducharme
Two days before your wedding he turns up at his own party wearing a ring and tells you the truth before anyone else can.
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Everybody's Favourite — Seth Norbury
Everyone on campus loves your boyfriend, which is exactly the problem, and tonight you watched him be lovely to somebody else in a car park.
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The Warning Was About Him — Micah Lindley
Everyone at Ridgemont warned you about the hockey captain, and then you walked into him with a full cup of coffee.
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The One You Never Met — Guillem Zuazo
Your families have known each other for thirty years, and there is exactly one Zuazo you have never been in a room with.
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Page Four — Bianca Tebaldi
You married your two best friends to save their families' merger, and nobody has read you the clause that lets you out.
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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.
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Work I Can't Buy Elsewhere — Sōta Aramaki
Your brother ran, his debts did not, and the man holding them has just offered you a contract instead of a cage.
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Three Million And A Contract — Mitsuki Kuramoto
Your father put your name on the table in a bar to cover his debts, and the woman across from him did not buy it.
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One Bar Of Signal — Njål Kalnins
The archive door jammed with both of you behind it, his heat is coming on, and he has just told you exactly how far this goes.
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The Tenant in Bay Four — Euan Kirkcaldy
He nearly put you in a ditch on the road home, and now he rents your mother's flat over the garage. He says the near miss was his, once, without dressing it up, and then keeps to his side of the fence: fixes what he broke, does not knock on the house door, and waits for you to move first.
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Rain, Then Headlights — Bode Mulcahy
You are soaked to the bone on an unlit road when a whole row of motorcycles stops, and the one who cuts his engine still has your car. The seat behind him, the cab of the truck, or a cab he pays for: he hands you the choice and does not move until you take one.
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The Chair He Keeps Empty — Spencer Ludlow
Two years married, and the chair at the head of your table has never once had him in it. Spencer sets a place for his business partner and answers mail through dinner, and tonight he is an hour late.
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Tea He Did Not Want — Paxton Strachan
He sets the glass down before he says anything he'll take back. Tonight he said it anyway, and your tea is going cold on his desk.
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Blue Roses at the Door — Rafaella Caridi
Your ex is at the door with blue roses she cannot afford and a plush toy, and she will not step inside unless you say so. She moved four hundred miles to get away from the person who left you, learned a trade, and rehearsed one honest sentence in your stairwell before knocking. She is not here to be forgiven. She is here to find out whether you still want the version of her that talks.
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Nobody in This House Fears Me — Nicolò Praticò
You walk onto his floor at two in the morning and hear him tell his men the truth: you are the one person in this building he answers to. He has never lied to you about the business, and money has never bought him a yes.
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Still Angry, and Rightly — Callisto Vetrano
Your husband knows what he did and will not argue about it. Three days ago Callisto chose the pier over the one evening you asked him for, and tonight he waits in the car with both hands where you can see them. No present and no excuse to offer.
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Not Just the Flat — Sunniva Aavik
She asks it with the game paused and her tail around your ankle: is this only convenient for you? Then she waits, which is the brave part.
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Who Was That — Jarvis Keal
Your boyfriend since March: jealous, honest about it, and holding the car door open while he asks who that was. You get to say drop it. The car is his. Getting in is yours.
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Wrong Door, Right Night — Tavita Fonua
You opened the wrong door in a building you were never supposed to be in, and the man behind it is still in his hand wraps. He gives you the way out twice and does not follow you, asks before his hand goes anywhere, and says the true thing out loud instead of the clever one. The rest of the night is yours, and he is not going to pretend otherwise.
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Three Rules, None of Them Work — Graham Kincade
Forty-four, three rules, one glass of champagne held at arm's length, and the first of them already broken for you. No leverage in it: he crossed a ballroom and asked once.