Before the entrance a black limousine waited, its polished surface as dark as the night, catching the glow of Londons streetlights. The driver opened the door...
The blue uniform and the face I recognized instantly. It was Officer Daniel Clarke the local policeman from our tower block. He wasnt alone; standing beside...
Vicky stood for a long time, phone pressed to her ear. Her mother’s voice floated in her mindwet, desperate, like rain that would not cease. She...
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Dear Diary, Today the routine of my bus route turned into a quiet reckoning. I was steering the number12 through the outskirts of York when an...
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Hey love, Ive got a story for you imagine it as a warm chat over a cuppa. The rain was coming down hard on the lanes...
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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...
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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...
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I used to watch Eleanor sweeping the stairwells of the old council tower, hoping the work would build a future...
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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....