Katherine trudged back to her flat after work, stepping into empty rooms as usual. She flicked on the telly, turning up the volume, pretending someone was...
By the time he turned thirty, Tom had spent ten years serving in conflict zones, been wounded twice, yet fate had spared him. After his second...
My daughter-in-law asked me to keep my distanceuntil she suddenly called for help herself. After my sons wedding, I visited them as often as I could....
When my father let us down, my stepmother yanked me from the jaws of an orphanage nightmare. As a child, my life was a shining fairy...
“This isnt some random fling, Victoria. Ive been living a double life for seventeen years,” Dominic said, nervously spinning a pen on his desk. “If this...
“This isnt some random fling, Victoria. Ive been living a double life for seventeen years,” Dominic said, nervously spinning a pen on his desk. “If this...
On her way to the shop, Emily suddenly recognised the mother of her first true love in the older woman approaching her. To her surprise, the...
Emma stepped back into her own home from the maternity wardand there, in the kitchen, stood a second fridge. “That one’s mine and Mum’s. Keep your...
“Has he still not called, Mum?” asked Andrew, gazing at the woman hunched over the table with bare, pleading eyes. “No, my dear heart… Your father...
**Diary Entry 23rd December, 1985** *”Has he still not called, Mum?” asked Andrew, staring at the woman sitting at the table with helpless eyes.* *”No, my...