31December I called Mum and my sister over for New Years Eve, I told James that evening. Will you have time to get everything ready? he...
Listen, you daft fool, William spat, slumping onto the old oak log beside the Millers cottage. I married her, and she cant cook a proper roast...
Mystery This morning Emily woke up feeling rotten. Just a day before shed been at the old churchyard down in Yorkshire. Her husband, James, asked her...
April 12th I found myself replaying that night over and over in my mind, begging myself to think twice before signing the consent to give my...
I married the widower next door, Arthur Bennett, whos eighttwo, just to keep the care home at StAlbans from taking him. Are you mad? my sister...
A young woman, cradling a little girl, stepped off the omnibus at the sign that read Willowmere Village of Willowmere. Mary! cried a tearstreaked voice as...
You’re not the mistress of the houseyoure just the servant, my motherinlaw, Agnes Whitaker, said, her voice as sweet as jam yet cutting like hot sauce,...
I remember that day as if it were a scene from a faded photograph. My mother, Edith Whitaker, brightened the moment she saw my son pull...
Kate is alone. Her husband left her after they married, and she turned him away. It feels better than a freeofcharge service that pretends to solve...
Tommy Clarkes life began with a rejection that seemed to come from nowhere. One night his mother, after a long labour that stretched into the early...
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....