I sit in my little village clinic, listening to the floorboards creak on the walltap, tap, tap, tapas if they were counting the beats of life...
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Arthur Whitaker has just reached his seventieth birthday, having raised three children on his own. His wife, Martha, died three decades ago and he never remarried....
28October2024 Tonight I found myself alone at my sisterinlaws wedding, a solitary figure perched at the far edge of the ballroom in the country house near...
For the last fifteen years, every evening at exactly six oclock, Margaret Shaw places a steaming plate on the same greenpainted bench in Brockwell Park, South...
Hey love, Ive got a story to share thats stuck with me forever. Im Laura Preston, just a tired single mum trying to scrape a living....
I promise to love your son as if he were my own. Rest in peace Oliver was the sort of man who seemed to have everything...
Maggie Ellis was huddled in her chilly little cottage on the edge of Yorkshire, the air thick with that old damp smell you get when nobody’s...
Evelyn sits on the hospital bed, her knees drawn up, and repeats angrily, I dont want him. Im done with him. All I want is Andrew,...
It happened on the day Edith Harper, the village postmistress, was to be married. Oh, what a wedding more like a funeral feast. The whole of...
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...
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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....
Have you noticed her, ladies, the woman in our ward? Shes already aged Yes, her hair is completely silver. She...
June 12th Lake Windermere The annual family gathering by the lake always starts the same way: pinescented air, folding tables...