The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey...

Married in Haste

by Cathy Maxwell

Tess Hamlin slammed open the door to the ladies' retiring room.

The Girl Who Married a Lion

by Alexander McCall Smith

Marry Me

by John Updike

Married in the morning

by Susan Meier

A married man

by Piers Paul Read

Marry in Secret

by Anne Gracie

Married in haste

by Christine Rimmer

The Wanting Seed

by Anthony Burgess

THIS was the day before the night when the knives of official disappointment struck.

The Beauty of the Husband

by Anne Carson

Married in the morning

by Susan Meier

Claudine en ménage

by Colette

The Awakening

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!

The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition

by Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe

Deep Water

by Patricia Highsmith

Vic didn't dance, but not for the reasons that most men who don't dance give to themselves.

Devil in Winter

by Lisa Kleypas

As Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, stared at the young woman who had just barged her way into his London residence, it occu...

Appointment in Samarra

by John O'Hara

Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but ...

Light in Shadow

by Jayne Ann Krentz

The walls screamed at her.

Her Hand In Marriage

by Jessica Steele

Reflections in a Golden Eye

by Carson McCullers

AN ARMY POST in peacetime is a dull place.