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....
13November I woke up early, feeling the usual knot in my stomach that always appears on the eve of Emmas birthday. Shes turning thirtyfive tomorrow and...
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...
Mum, why do you always say that? Evelyn’s voice trembled on the edge of a breakdown. It’s the same argument every single time! Evelyn, Im only...
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...
Let this night be my last, and Ill go out in style. Ill stare at the love of my life, wish her a long, happy life,...
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...