**A Note on Me-Time** Recently, a friend popped over for coffee, and as we sat chatting about life, I mentioned, Ill just go and do the...
**On the Margins of Me-Time** Not long ago, an old mate came round for a cuppa, and we sat nattering about life. At one point, I...
“Leave her here, let her die!” they muttered, dumping the old woman into the snow. The fools didnt realise the boomerang would come right back. Margaret...
“Leave her here, let her die!” they muttered, dumping the old woman into the snowdrift. The fools didnt realise the boomerang would soon swing back. Margaret...
A Wealthy Lady Visits Her Sons Grave and Finds a Weary Waitress Holding a Baby What She Learned Changed Everything A year had slipped by since...
A year had gone by since her only son, James, passed away. The funeral had been small, but Eleanors grief stayed buried under her calm surface....
Spotting the dog lying by the bench, she rushed over. Her gaze fell on the leash carelessly left behind by Natalie. As soon as she saw...
Spotting the dog lying by the bench, she rushed over. Her gaze fell on the leash, carelessly left behind by Natalie. The moment she saw the...
My mother and sister saw me as nothing more than a walking walletthey never bothered to care about who I really was. I grew up in...
Long ago, in a small town near Manchester, I was raised in a house that never truly felt like a home. It was just the three...
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....
**Diary Entry 23rd December, 1985** *”Has he still not called, Mum?” asked Andrew, staring at the woman sitting at the...
One day, my dads new wife showed up with a big box of sweets and two little poodles wagging their...
**Diary Entry 15th May, 2024** Every day, I walk to my grandsons school. Im not a teacher or staffjust a...
One afternoon, my fathers second wife appeared at our doorstep. In her hands was a box full of sweets, and...
**Diary Entry** My fathers new wife appeared one day with a large box of sweets and two little poodles wagging...
“Heart? You’re only twelvewhat do you know about the heart?” “I know that if it doesnt beat right, a person...