Romantic Marriage #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains three romantic stories. "Honeymoon Nest Becomes Henpeck House" follows a newlywed wife who feels neglected when her husband prioritizes bowling and socializing with friends, leading to jealousy and marital conflict before reconciliation. A second story depicts a woman named Miss who survives a plane crash alongside her husband Bob, fighting through flames and wreckage to rescue him, with both eventually rescued and reunited in a hospital. The final story, set at an army camp, centers on a soldier named Mike and a woman named Celia whose relationship is tested by her selfish ambitions, but ultimately they reconcile and pledge their love, ending at a railroad station where Mike declares she'll be "the wife you always wanted."
After five years of marriage, a wife discovers perfumed letters from another woman hidden in her husband's pocket—letters that suggest an affair that threatens everything she's built. Determined not to lose him without a fight, she transforms herself and their home, fighting for her marriage with everything she has. Will rekindling the spark between them be enough to save what's slipping away?
A young woman becomes obsessed with applying pop psychology to her marriage to Carl, following advice from self-help books about maintaining separate interests and avoiding jealousy—but her well-intentioned "adult" approach to marriage begins to backfire spectacularly. As she enforces independence, encourages outside socializing, and suppresses her own feelings, she discovers that real love might need something the textbooks don't teach. With her marriage unraveling faster than she can flip to the next chapter, Jane learns that being scientific about the heart isn't always the answer.
Connie Blake thought she'd found her childhood dream in Bill, but discovers their marriage was built on gratitude rather than love—a revelation that drives a wedge between them as misunderstandings and lingering doubts threaten to tear them apart. When Bill overhears a fragment of conversation suggesting Connie's heart lies elsewhere, he confronts her with accusations she can't easily deny, forcing both to reckon with what their marriage actually is.
A young flight attendant's final flight before her wedding becomes a nightmare when a violent storm forces the plane down in a crash. Madge Oliver manages to save her passengers and the pilots—including her fiancé Bob—but the trauma leaves them both changed: she's terrified of flying, and he's lost without it. As Madge tries to build a safe life on the ground, she discovers that keeping Bob grounded may be destroying the man she loves.
A young woman who escaped her domineering stepmother's control finds herself repeating those exact patterns in her own marriage to Mike, turning their home into a place of constant criticism and rules instead of warmth and romance. As her nagging transforms their relationship into an icy standoff and threatens to destroy everything she loves, Celia must confront the painful truth about who she's become—and whether she can change before it's too late.
A woman's vanity and ambition threaten to destroy her marriage when she persuades her commercial artist husband George to abandon his steady job and pursue fine art—specifically, painting her portrait for a prestigious scholarship. Tensions mount when the couple moves to a Texas ranch to find the time and space to complete the work, but her refusal to contribute to the household labor and her obsession with preserving her beauty at any cost strain George's patience and test the bonds of their love.
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Reprinted in Weird Love #19 (2017)
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