Forgive me, Steve, but I Ive fallen for your wife, Tom said, his eyes fixed on nothing but the distance. The words seemed to burst from...
For fifteen years, every evening at six oclock, Margaret Shaw placed a steaming meal on the same greenpainted bench in RegentsPark. She never lingered to see...
Theres a mum and theres a daughter and in my case the daughter turned out to be my mates little girl, Emma. Wed gone off on...
What a granddaughter you have, William D., darkeyed and whitetoothed. In whom does such a child appear? Not yours, perhaps? Of course shes mine, sir, she...
Emma Barker was a blonde, and her husband James was a darkhaired, charismatic man. They adored each other, and two years after their wedding a daughter...
Connor Cavendish sat in his wheelchair, staring through a dustcovered pane at the street outside. Bad luck, really: the window of his ward faced the hospitals...
When the door clicked shut behind Margaret Whitmore, only three people were left in the office Emily, her little daughter, and the tall gentleman in the...
He said it so calmly, almost as if he were looking out for me: Why should you work, love? Im earning enough. You just take care...
Richard Sinclair sat perfectly still for what felt like ages. The world hed convinced himself he could buy people, futures, even destiny collapsed in a handful...
When I write on a blank sheet Resignation Emily Turner, Im not doing it out of weakness. Im doing it because I already have a plan....
My mother was strikingly beautiful, though my father would say that was her sole advantage. I, who adored him with...
Open the bag, now! The CCTV can see everything, theres no way youll get away! Take it all out! The...
Cold Divorce: The Dream of Emma and James It is a strange, cold feeling to wake and discover love turning...
Did you see her, ladies? The old woman in our ward? I asked the other nurses, halfsmiling as I leaned...
Margaret lived alone on her modest pension, tucked away in a tiny Cotswold village where the world seemed to consist...
Family? Tell Christopher to come at once! the daughter shrieked. All three of the little ones have a fever, theyre...
I used to watch Eleanor sweeping the stairwells of the old council tower, hoping the work would build a future...
Oliver lived in a ninestorey council block where the walls were thinner than a teabag and every neighbours sneeze bounced...
Open the rucksack at once! the words cut through the air. In the bustling shoemaking hall of the Manchester plant,...
Hey love, you wont believe what I overheard it finally made sense why he married me in the first place....