Midlifecrisis Stories

Bob Luce turns fifty on April Fool's Day and realizes the joke may be on him. A successful dentist with a loyal wife and daughters, he should be content. Instead, a motorcycle, a young hygienist, and restless thoughts push him toward trouble in this funny, sharp look at midlife temptation.

Everyone believed Solène Crawford was just a quiet, virtuous wife the woman who stood behind her husband's success and asked for nothing in return. At a Thanksgiving dinner meant to celebrate family, Solène's marriage explodes when Lewis Crawford parades his pregnant mistress before relatives and friends who had feasted on her sacrifices for fifteen years. A medical report has already declared her infertile. Lewis demands she accept the child with "grace." She doesn't scream. She doesn't cry. She smiles because she has held his entire empire in the palm of her hand since the day she built it. What begins as a calculated dismantling of the man who discarded her spirals into deeper betrayals from the very people she once protected. Old allies turn, secrets surface, and an unexpected obstacle forces her to choose between total destruction and something far more dangerous: trust. In the wreckage, Solène discovers the woman she was always meant to be brilliant, unbreakable, and finally free. Some men are lifted up. Others are allowed to fall. Lewis Crawford is about to learn which one he was.

Dylan Brennan has the corner office. The marriage. The five children. The life everyone sees and calls complete. So why does the laughter sound like it's coming from slightly too far away? At fifty-eight he has everything he spent thirty years building. He is not unhappy. He is finished. And for a man who has never stopped moving, finished is the worst thing to be. Then a woman named Riley walks into his life and for the first time in thirty years his mind goes quiet. For eleven months he is more alive than he has been in years. But she was never the answer. She was a vacation. And vacations end. MATURE CONTENT. This is not a typical romance. Expect complexity, not comfort. No villains, no neat endings - just choices and what they cost.

Mainly my thoughts on various topics. Feel free to skip over this. Just want to get things out of my head.

Hiding my face from all reality. Hiding behind the shades. But who am I really? Would you truly love me knowing the things I've done? Know the girl behind the shades.

A collection of essays, poems, or anything in between. Got some goodies, and some oldies-basically a mix and match of words. Would you join me in delving the colors of my mind? Maybe you'll find a color to entwine with yours? Again, this is not a story.

This is just a girl having a tantrum so read at your own risk

<> is in love with his best friend {}, what happens when he finally confess. Will they wrestle? (No they don't get names because my creativity level stops at names) This was written by me, a bored insomniac asexual that was bored one random night at 3am because I was bored, so I wrote this bored. Since I was so bored I took like two hours writing this because I was bored. So enjoy this story because I was bored.

So there's this guy Rick, and he happens to be the main character of this story. Though, the thing is he seems to be having a way-too-early mid life crisis. But this mid life crisis is no ordinary one, he isn't just hallucinating or loosing his mind. Or is he ?

-SLICE OF LIFE- ASIK, mungkin RELATABLE, coba baca dulu aja Pemeran utama kita SILAS ELI punya mid-life crisis kyknya. Tidak jelek, tidak tampan. Tidak tinggi juga tapi bukan pendek. Pintar tapi bukan jenius. Kepribadiannya juga tidak jelas tapi sepertinya introvert. Sambil menjalani hidup, ada beberapa hal yang ia lalui. Namun apa kehidupannya akan berubah? ya.

Through the years and the challenges of life this women realises that nothing is as expected. She choosed to become a mother, a wife, a drug addicted, a survivor of domestic violance, a women. She realise she didnt know she choose...every time. She didnt want to choose all that... Then why did she do it...? One step before madness, she wants to survive.

This is fiction based on my miseries and failures from birth to present time. Statistics prove that only a few succeed. I am one of the billions of losers on this planet. I am so sick and tired of being ashamed of my failures. There is nothing to be embarrassed about being one of the all-time losers in this world. I am sick of reading success stories. I am Catherine LOSER Francisco and I am writing about the miserable chapters of my life. Don't read this. You will be more depressed.

'Sitting on the marble laboratory table was a glass bottle containing a pink bubbly liquid...' * Logan's mom is a biology expert, and when he goes into his mom's laboratory, he finds a special potion. Logan, being curious, takes the potion and uses it on his enemy, Sarah, to watch the effects. When he finds out what he's done to her, he regrets it...

In 2001, a man with a dysfunctional family begins to explore his satisfaction with his 'perfect' life. Following his own interests, he embarks on a remarkable journey across the world - soon to learn that all his actions have consequences.

Dive in to a glimpse of Becca's story. Parents just divorcing, sister going into rehab, and her left alone to herself and her journal. Nothing could get worse in her life, well that's what she thought 21 days ago. That's what she thought before calling her aunt. That's what she thought before she got on the plane. That's what she before the engine failed. That's what she thought till she was alone. That's what she thought.

A 72-year-old mad Soviet genius - illegitimate son of composer Dmitry Shostakovich, fugitive physicist, and connoisseur of blini - fled to the UK in the 1990s with miles of stolen superconducting wire. Now in 2025 he's dragging a baffled postmistress to Riga in a clunky Volga, dodging Interpol (or is it the Kazakh mafia?), while his motorbike-obsessed British sidekick tries to untangle why Igor's "harmless" string theory research might just be the universe's deadliest weapon. Chaos, curd-cheese pancakes, and cosmic chords ensue. Tone: Darkly comic, Big Lebowski meets Cold War spy farce. Comparisons: "If A Gentleman in Moscow crashed into The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window... with extra vodka."

Minion is a regular guy: he's got a wife, a kid, and an app ruined his career as a henchman. Being a villain's sidekick used to be a good job: risky, sure, but well-paying and with top-notch life insurance. But Henchr has brought the tech revolution to the supervillain business. Now it's uncertain schedules and no worker's comp. No villain is evil enough to have dreamt up the gig economy. After one too many jobs gone wrong, Minion decides to retire. This is fine. His self-worth isn't tied to his job. But it is a little humiliating when his wife starts talking about going back to work as the supervillain Dominatrix, a career she retired from a decade ago. And now their daughter is dating a girl that Minion suspects goes out at night in a mask - as a hero, no less. Only a supervillain can sort out Minion's problems, but he can't ask his wife when she's, well, part of the problem. There's only one thing to do: it's time for Minion to become Villain. THE INCREDIBLES meets DOCTOR HORRIBLE'S SING-ALONG BLOG with a dash of THE VENTURE BROS ***** Contains profanity and cartoon violence *featured on superhero's 'Anti-Heroes and Awesome Antagonists' list and antiheroesgalore's 'Shockingly Short' and 'Badass Authors' lists* Complete at 25k words

❝ i'm a lucky girl, ❞ ━━━ 111 a collection of poetry to lift the soul ❝ all good things come to me. ❞

a short story about a girl stuck in relationship crisis