**A Family Recipe** *Do you seriously want to marry someone you met online?* Margaret Evans eyed her future daughter-in-law with the same scepticism as if shed...
The Shadow of the Gypsy on White Snow The crisp, icy air of January seemed to have absorbed forever the scent of burning candles from the...
**Whispers Beyond the Glass** The nurse, a woman with a weary, windworn face and eyes dulled by years of witnessing others suffering, awkwardly shifted Alices clear...
Margaret couldnt recall the last time shed felt so rested. Her business trip had been delayed by a few hours, and without offering any explanation, she...
The solitary street sweeper found a phone in the park. Switching it on, she stood frozen for a long time. Martha Whitcombe left for work earlier...
“Rom, darling, it’s twins!” sobbed Tanya down the phone. “Theyre so tiny, just 5.5 pounds each, but theyre healthyeverythings fine!” “God, the scan did say twins,”...
**Unwelcome Guests** The phone jolted Emily awake at five in the morning. An unknown number flashed on the screen. “Yes?” she said flatly. “Emily, love?” a...
**The Revenge of a Scorned Woman** Anthony Smith, a physics teacher at a rural school in Cornwall, had just married for the second time. At forty-one,...
I was just thinking, Emily murmured, that we might be the wrong sort of family. Im so glad I have you, said William, wrapping his arms...
“Daddy, dont go! Please, dont leave us! Dad, dont buy me anything else, or Alfie either. Just stay with us! No more toy cars, no more...
“This isnt some random fling, Victoria. Ive been living a double life for seventeen years,” Dominic said, nervously spinning a...
On her way to the shop, Emily suddenly recognised the mother of her first true love in the older woman...
After descending the slope toward the waters edge, Michael sized up the cats chances of survival. The steady flow of...
“Father, please… dont come to the school today, all right?” “Why, Emmeline? Dont you want me to see you receive...
Emma stepped back into her own home from the maternity wardand there, in the kitchen, stood a second fridge. “That...
On her way to the shop, Emily suddenly recognised the mother of her first true love in the elderly woman...
After descending the slope leading to the water, Michael assessed the cats chances of survival. The steady flow of the...
“Excuse me… where am I?” the woman murmured, staring blankly out the car window as though lost in a daze....
“Excuse me… where am I?” the woman asked softly, peering out the car window as if the world outside made...
“Has he still not called, Mum?” asked Andrew, gazing at the woman hunched over the table with bare, pleading eyes....