**The Ungrateful** “Emily, we’re starving! Stop lying around!” Her husbands irritated voice cut through the fog of her aching head. Her throat burned, her nose was...
“Youve got no heart at all. Cant you see how much Daniels struggling? Hes your brotheryou couldve helped him out. Its always about you, isnt it?”...
At sixty-five, it dawned on me that our children no longer needed us. For the first time in my life, I found myself asking: after everything...
**Diary Entry 12th May** Its strange how life twists and turns. Met a girl todayEmily, her name wasworking as a waitress at The Royal Oak, one...
Every afternoon after leaving secondary school, Thomas walked along the cobbled streets with his backpack slung over one shoulder and a wildflower carefully cradled between his...
On a dreary Tuesday afternoon in the winter of 2011, the town of Chesterfield lay under a blanket of grey clouds, the chill biting at every...
The salty breeze tousled Marinas hair as she squinted against the sunlight, dabbing her brush against the canvas. The blue blended softly into indigo, capturing the...
In the heart of the English countryside, surrounded by golden wheat fields and rolling pastures, stood the old farmhouse of Willowbrook. On a mild afternoon, two...
At sixty-five, she realised the worst thing wasnt being aloneit was begging her children for a call, knowing full well she was just an inconvenience. *”Mum,...
My husband and stepdaughter always ignored me, so I quietly left. Then they started to panic… My name is Mary. Im thirty years old, work as...
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....