Mother, why are you always like this? Mabels voice trembled on the brink of breaking. Every time its the same story! Mabel, Im only trying to...
Let that night be his last, and let it be a graceful one. He would gaze upon his beloved, wish her a long life, then curl...
October was brutal. The rain kept coming down, the wind whistled through the back garden, and I was standing in the kitchen, staring at the wall....
Marmalade the ginger cat prowled the platform, fixing each passerby with a steady stare as if he were trying to spot the one person hed been...
I still remember the day Michael Hawthorne stopped his battered Ford by the crooked old fence, the dust on the country lane rising lazily like a...
They say, Did they ditch you?a phrase that still flickers through my mind whenever I think of that winter three years ago, when I was thrown...
Sorry, James, but Ive fallen for your wife, Tom said, his eyes fixed on some distant point. The words seemed to spill out despite his will....
For fifteen years, each evening at precisely six oclock, I would see Margaret Shaw set a steaming plate on the same greenpainted bench in Greenfield Park,...
There was a mother and there was a daughter, and the daughter turned out to be my friend Emmas little girl. Our family had gone on...
What a striking granddaughter you have, Walter, darkeyed and with a smile as bright as fresh snow, said the old farmer, his voice full of pride....
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....