Life doesn’t always turn out to be what it seems. Sometimes, people go on for years believing in something, only to discover that their world was not as real as they thought. In this collection of short stories, you will meet 12 people who each lived under a false reality. Their journeys are filled with surprises, moments of truth, and the challenge of facing what was hidden for so long. Prepare to step into their lives and uncover the secrets that changed everything.
- After six years together, my fiancée called off our wedding, and in the note she left me, she wrote, “You were a soft place to land while I was between phases of my life.” Six years. We were four months away from getting married.
There’s no way I’ll ever be able to bounce back from reading that. It’s not like she said it verbally and didn’t mean it—because sometimes words come out, and you don’t mean them. She chose to write it and chose to give it to me.
I’ll never be the person I was before she told me I was merely a soft place to land.
- I was told that my birth mother abandoned me. My dad and stepmom got custody of me at a very young age—so young that I effectively knew my stepmom as my mom because she raised me.
My dad played dirty through the whole thing, and even though my birth mother had visitation rights, he made her life hell and never let her see me. There were times I waited for her to pick me up, and (unbeknownst to me) my dad had refused to let her come. She would be waiting in the car down the street, and he wouldn’t let her have her parenting time.
He used my grandparents’ money and the court system to effectively steal me from her. I found this out from my aunts (her sisters) after she passed at the start of November.
- On her deathbed, my stepmother (who had raised me from the time I was 3 years old and died when I was 35) told me that she never thought of me as family but just didn’t know how to get rid of me after my dad abandoned us.
- I grew up thinking we were poor. My parents were extremely frugal—no eating out, no new clothes, no vacations. I started working at 14 to help with bills.
Then, when my dad passed, I found out he had over $1 million in savings. My mom admitted they just didn’t believe in spending money. I was furious—I struggled for years while they sat on a fortune.
What happened next changed everything…
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