This is our shared flat, Im the one who lives here too, declared Emma, Andrews girlfriend, as she stepped into the hallway. Mom, why are you...
25May2025 Dear Diary, Tonight the kitchen felt like a battlefield. Pippa stormed in, ladle clutched in her hand, eyes swollen from tears. I told you I...
The house you built is just in the nick of time! Were expecting our first little one and well move in with you for some fresh...
My word is final. You, my dear, may stay angry at your dad as long as you like. Its his soul thats rotten, so dont argue,...
May12 The spa at StIves was humming with evening activity, and I found myself drifting toward the ballroom after a long, restless day. I hadnt set...
20th December Victor finally turned up later than Id expected. Emily, my wife, had been waiting anxiously, already fearing something had gone awry on the road....
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Were thinking of spending NewYears at your cottage. Im here for the keys, my sisterinlaw said. Why bother going up to the country? You two could...
Mother, I forgive you, Lucy whispered. Margaret Ellis lay still. One quiet evening she called her daughter over. Lucy, my dear, Im dying. The time has...
You cant keep living like that, Em. Youre thirty, yet you act like youre already eighty, her mother said, settling beside her on the worn sofa....
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....