“Youve got no heart. Cant you see how much Daniels struggling? Hes your brotheryou couldve helped him out. You only ever think about yourself.” Thats what...
At sixty-five, it dawned on us that our children had outgrown us. How do we accept this and learn to live for ourselves again? I am...
A girl who grew up in a childrens home in London landed a job as a waitress at a fancy restaurant. But everything changed when she...
Every afternoon after leaving secondary school, Thomas walked along the cobbled streets with his backpack slung over one shoulder and a wildflower carefully cradled in his...
It was a bleak Tuesday afternoon in the winter of 2011. The town lay under a heavy blanket of grey clouds, the cold seeping into every...
**Diary Entry – October 12th** I found a little girl on the docks after a storm, with no memory of who she was, and I took...
In the heart of the English countryside, amid rolling fields of wheat and pastures, stood the old farmhouse of Willowbrook. On a mild afternoon, two figures...
**Diary Entry 4th May** At sixty-five, I realised the greatest fear isnt being aloneits begging your own children for a phone call, knowing youre nothing but...
My husband and daughter always ignored me, so I quietly left. Then they began to panic… My name is Mary. Im thirty years old, a clerk...
The drizzle painted Londons streets with a faint sheen as people hurried past, umbrellas up, eyes downbut no one noticed the woman in a beige trouser...
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....
**Diary Entry 23rd December, 1985** *”Has he still not called, Mum?” asked Andrew, staring at the woman sitting at the...
One day, my dads new wife showed up with a big box of sweets and two little poodles wagging their...