The sound of police sirens pierces the air while hundreds of people stand and gathered around a riverbank in a local farmer’s backyard. Right before their eyes is something that at first sight cannot be explained — something that was discovered so unexpectedly by a farmer on a simple stroll in his backyard. For that farmer, Jose, this day started out as just an ordinary day. With the sun shining down on his…
Margaret Willis, a 52-year-old woman, was fully aware of the pros and cons of being married to a man in the military. She was not like any ordinary wife, she was the wife of a respectable officer which was a pretty big deal. Margaret tried to maintain the respect and poise of an officer’s wife at all times. She simply did not know where this distinction ended, which was unfortunate for her. Being married to…
Sometimes it’s hard to escape your past, if not impossible. There was an LA Dodger who worked hard to get himself from the bottom and up to the top. You would think that it would be easy for him to forget about his past, before fame and wealth. No one could have thought that after his rise to fame, he would face the surprise of a lifetime. This surprise would come from a visit with…
At first glance, it looked like a beautiful and perfectly normal home in the suburbs of Tampa, Florida. The person who lived in it, Marina Terracciano, seemed like a perfectly normal suburban housewife as well. But sometimes, secrets can be hidden where you least expect them. And they can be, as is the case with this story, secrets from a murky, wild, murderous past. When the Terraccianos saw that house in Tampa, Florida, on an…
They sat at the doctor’s, uneasily waiting for their results. They’d been trying to get pregnant for the last one and a half years with no luck. The doctor walked in with a solemn look on his face. He pinched his nose as he sat down, unable to look them in their eyes. What he’d share would rip their world apart. Max Patterson was your typical twenty-seven-year-old New Yorker. Fresh from fine arts grad school,…
Hailey Kenway always wanted to be happy in life. But born to a restrictive family, she’d felt like her life was one endless prison. Hailey’s childhood consisted of restrictions her dad had put in place. He’d insisted that she grow up to be a proper lady of society. Despite her mom’s objections to the way he was raising their daughter, Hailey’s dad didn’t let up. The first time Hailey was ever by herself was in…
She’d warned her neighbor not to park his son’s truck in her driveway twice now. The first time he did it, she had him remove it immediately. The second time was a carbon copy of the first. But when she got home from the emergency room that night and found the truck in her driveway, she knew it was time to live up to her promise. Alicia Holloway was your ordinary single mom living in…
Just days before Christmas, a family in Minnesota woke up their worst nightmare. Dad woke up to the screams of his eldest daughter outside his bedroom door. Devin Haegamen could smell smoke from inside the house. It turns out the family may not have escaped their burning home in time if it had not been for their dog, Gracie. The family lived to tell the tale of how they narrowingly escaped death’s clutches. The loyal…
She heard a knock on her door, but she couldn’t believe who the unexpected guest would be. He examined what she had found in the ground and explained what consequences finding it had. Tilly couldn’t believe what she was hearing, she felt her stomach twist into a knot. This couldn’t be true, what had she done? Tilly Jackson was an ordinary girl who lived near the English countryside. She was like most normal 13-year-old girls,…
She made her way into his room and grabbed the diary from his bed before rushing to the kitchen. She got a pen out of her bag and started scribbling on the blank piece of paper. She was livid as she pressed the pen so hard against the paper that it nearly snapped. She could feel her anger only getting worse as she angrily wrote the words, “He will NOT be taking part in this…