“Fine, we wont kick you out for the holidays. Just prepare three bedroomsmy sisters and niece will be staying over. You can sleep in the kitchen.”...
**Diary Entry 11th May, 2024** The rhythmic clatter of the train wheels marked the beginning of my long-awaited holiday. Three months of saving, three months dreaming...
**The Kangaroo Who Saved His Human** Yorkshire, 2020. On an isolated farm nestled between rolling hills and ancient oaks, lived Thomas Whitaker, a retired farmer of...
**Kuzma** The wedding was over, the guests had gone, and our daughter had moved in with her husband. The flat felt empty. After a week of...
Living Fully at 70 Without Children A woman in her 70s who chose not to have children shares her perspective on life I dont want anyone...
**Personal Diary Entry** I never thought my own parents would betray us so completely. My name is Amelia. After my divorce, I moved back in with...
**A Marriage for Charlies Sake** Charlies happy childhood ended when he was five. One day, his parents never came to collect him from nursery. All the...
“Good morning, love.” “Good morning, love.” As always, he woke a minute before the alarm. A habit left over from his army days. Rolling off the...
Emily, we’re starving! Enough lying around!her husbands irritated voice cut through the fog of her headache. Her throat burned, her nose was blocked, and her body...
“You’ve got no heart. Cant you see how Daniels struggling? Hes your brotheryou couldve helped. You only ever think of yourself.” Thats what Mum said when...
“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....