14October2025 I have finally found Mums old diary. Reading it has finally given me the answer as to why she always seemed to treat me differently...
Hey love, you wont believe the call I got today. My phone rang an unknown number and I answered straight away, even though my hands were...
Ive been looking after my granddaughter Emma for twelve years, thinking her mother had gone off to work abroad. One afternoon the little thing finally told...
My adult son had always kept his distance. When he landed in A&E, I finally saw the other half of his life and the people who...
5May2024 He left for a work trip the night before and never came back. The truth turned out to be far uglier than I had imagined....
The telephone rang, and a voice on the other end announced, Your husband has been in an accident. But that isnt all It sounded rehearsed, cold...
Dear Diary, Why do you think you have the right to shuffle my belongings around and thrust me into a situation I havent even discussed? Im...
It’s not a toy Why do you want a child now, Natalie? Youre nearly forty! What could you possibly manage? Sarah laughed, wiping tears from the...
On a bleak winter evening, Eleanor slipped out of her modest cottage in the rolling hills of Yorkshire as the first flakes drifted down, large and...
The Swallows Nest When William Harper married Eleanor, his mother got on with her daughterinlaw straight away. Shed had her eye on Eleanor long before, back...
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....