Mrs. Ethel Morgan lived alone in a cosy cottage on the edge of a Kent village. One rainy afternoon she stumbled across a tiny, sootcoloured kitten...
After saying that, do I really have to sit here, pretend everythings fine, and smile? No, celebrate without me! With those words Helen slammed the bedroom...
Lock my fridge and get out, the daughterinlaw whispered, exhausted by the endless inspections of her motherinlaw. The keys jingled in the lock with such familiarity...
Just one word out of line and my son will kick you out the door!she shouted. I dont care whose flat it is!the motherinlaw bellowed. Emma...
Ian Whitaker rushes down the bustling high street, his mind racing as if a hidden foe chases him. He has a boardroom vote in an hour...
Heres the menu, have everything ready by five; Im not going to spend my jubilee standing in the kitchen, the motherinlaw commands, though she immediately regrets...
I realised that my motherinlaw was ill, keeping her diagnosis secret while still fussing over meher daughterinlaw. Even now she was already planning how to secure...
I recall how my brother declared, Well spend the entire summer at your cottage, as if it were a simple plan. I had barely found the...
The air in the garden seemed to have stopped moving. It hung heavy, thick with the scents of summer and something bitter, acridlike burnt plastic mixed...
Oliver slams the fridge door, nearly scattering the contents, and a magnet clatters to the floor with a sharp clang. Emma stands opposite him, pale, her...