Oh, my dears, what a day that turned out to be Grey and weeping, as if the very heavens knew the bitter sorrow unfolding in Willowbrook....
**Diary Entry A Summer with the Grandkids** “Blimey, you must not know todays children very well!” “Hello, Margaret, I see youre busy in the gardenthought Id...
He found it around the corner of a house, just darting from one rubbish heap to another, searching for food. Thats where he stumbled upon the...
“Dont forget, youve lived in my flat your whole life.” “Youre starting again. Are you going to throw this in my face forever?” Tanya and Oliver...
After my husbands funeral, my son took me to the outskirts of town and said, Get off the bus here. We cant take care of you...
Hearing footsteps, Olivia swiftly deleted the messageone that confessed how desperately the sender missed her and longed to meet againbefore placing the phone back on the...
**Diary Entry** It was a quiet morningjust another grey London dawnwhen I first heard her. A soft, pleading mew, as if asking for help. But the...
That day, a woman came to my doorstep whom I hadnt seen in five years. Margaret Whitaker. In our little village of Riverford, folks called her...
The drizzle fell softlylike a delicate curtain of rainas people hurried past with their umbrellas up and eyes down. Yet no one paid attention to the...
Late autumn, early morning on a working daythe town still yawned, but the tires on the country road already crunched beneath the weight of an approaching...
“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....