**Friday, 15th September** Lily and her best friend Sophie had just finished their classes for the day. The evening was still bright, and Lily wasnt ready...
**Star’s Shoes** Star was eleven years old and walked barefoot along the cobbled streets of Canterbury. Every stone, every crack beneath her feet whispered tales of...
“He looks just like your missing son,” my fiancée whispered. What happened next left everyone on the street stunned. James Whitmore wasnt accustomed to walking. He...
Sophie Wilson sighed in relief as her car finally turned into the driveway after three days away. It had been years since she and her husband,...
“WHO COULDNT LOVE” “Girls, come on, which one of you is Lily?” The young woman eyed me and my friend with playful suspicion. “Thats me. Why?”...
Fire ripped through the grand estatebut what the housekeeper carried out left everyone stunned. “Fire! The kitchens on fire!” The shout came from a member of...
In a quiet village in the English countryside, surrounded by rolling green hills and fields of barley, lived Thomas Whitmore, a seventy-year-old man who had known...
Time to meet the sharks, my daughter-in-law murmured before shoving me overboard. My son stood by, grinning, as the waves swallowed me whole. His prize? My...
The first bell had yet to chime when Alfie Whitaker trudged into St. Georges School, his gaze fixed on the floorboards, willing himself unseen. But children...
**Diary Entry 12th June** My wife Charlotte passed five years ago. Since then, Ive raised our daughter Sophie on my own. Yesterday, we attended my closest...
“This isnt some random fling, Victoria. Ive been living a double life for seventeen years,” Dominic said, nervously spinning a...
On her way to the shop, Emily suddenly recognised the mother of her first true love in the older woman...
After descending the slope toward the waters edge, Michael sized up the cats chances of survival. The steady flow of...
“Father, please… dont come to the school today, all right?” “Why, Emmeline? Dont you want me to see you receive...
Emma stepped back into her own home from the maternity wardand there, in the kitchen, stood a second fridge. “That...
On her way to the shop, Emily suddenly recognised the mother of her first true love in the elderly woman...
After descending the slope leading to the water, Michael assessed the cats chances of survival. The steady flow of the...
“Excuse me… where am I?” the woman murmured, staring blankly out the car window as though lost in a daze....
“Excuse me… where am I?” the woman asked softly, peering out the car window as if the world outside made...
“Has he still not called, Mum?” asked Andrew, gazing at the woman hunched over the table with bare, pleading eyes....