Mum, Ill be quick. Twenty minutes, no more James stands in the doorway of the ward, trying to smile, though his lips tremble. Just dont dawdle,...
When Ethel finally drifted back to the hamlet, nobody recognised her at first. Thirty years had slipped bythirty years since the eighteenyearold girl boarded a coach...
It was the coldest morning wed had in ages, the sort of bitter chill that makes you think the world might freeze solid. Snow was coming...
Are you planning to move out, Poppy? Susan leans against the kitchen doorway, a mug of tea in her hand, her voice flat and almost contemptuous....
Logan stood motionless as the city around him pressed on, its relentless rhythm unchanged, while he stared at the face of a woman he never thought...
A burst a deafening crack darkness more darkness At last the gloom began to loosen. A voice floated in: Mrs. Vera Whitmore, theres a rescuer on...
Tom, its a girl, 3.5kg! Galina exclaims into the receiver, her voice bubbling with joy. I stand beneath the windows of StGeorges Maternity Hospital, waving at...
**Diary 12April** I had just slipped my meagre evening catch into a wicker basket and was making my way down the narrow track toward the ramshackle...
I was lateagain, late for the meeting with the restaurants manager that would seal the details of my wedding a month away. A banquet for a...
The earth reeked of grief and dampness. Every stone I tossed onto the lid of a coffin seemed to thud somewhere beneath my ribs. Fifty years....