Love and Marriage #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAn anthology romance issue featuring multiple stories. One story involves a starving artist named Sam whose wife pleads with him to give up painting and find work so they can eat, leading to conflict over his artistic ambitions versus their financial needs. Another story, "Stolen Moments," depicts a woman named Laura torn between two suitors and the complications of her romantic entanglements with them. A third story, "Unwanted Wife," shows a woman named Viola caught in a love triangle when her husband Jeff's former love interest Helen Davis arrives and creates tension, resulting in a confrontation where Jeff ultimately leaves with Viola. The issue includes multiple tales exploring marital discord, artistic sacrifice, and romantic rivalry.
When Neil Victor returns home on leave, his fiancée Virginia is greeted by his wartime buddy Ted Mason, and an unexpected connection begins to grow between them during a night out. As Virginia grapples with her feelings, she must confront the emotional consequences of her heart’s shift, knowing her relationship with Neil is no longer as certain as it once was.
Gloria, struggling to support her impoverished artist husband Sam, makes the desperate decision to sell one of his paintings to buy food—only to face his anger and abandonment. Weeks later, after a tragic accident scars her face and she believes she’s lost him forever, Sam returns unexpectedly, not to reclaim his work, but to find her again.
In a twist of fate, Lois, the more reserved twin, steps in to protect a soldier named David Hoff from her outgoing sister Laura’s heartless flirtations—pretending to be Laura to win David’s affection and marry him. As the wedding vows are spoken and the truth is revealed, David must confront whether his love was for Laura or the sister who sacrificed her own feelings to save him.
Viola, married to Jeff for convenience, finds herself caught between her past choices and a growing realization of her true feelings. When she discovers Jeff may be involved with another woman, her jealousy turns inward as she confronts the emptiness of her own marriage and the love she never acknowledged. As she prepares to leave Jeff for another man, fate intervenes in a moment that forces her to face what she’s truly lost.
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Reprinted in Secret Romances #24 (1955), Love and Marriage #8 (1958)
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