“Didnt Want to Marry Mum Made Me” “Tom, can you look after Billy?” called Emily towards the bedroom as she adjusted her scarf in the mirror....
**A Slice at Someone Elses Expense** *”Put your hand on your heartmy blood pressures all over the place. The doctor says I need expensive medication Youll...
Oh, you wont believe this dramaits like something out of a telly show. So, picture this: Emmas in her cosy kitchen in Bristol, right? The whole...
*Has She Moved On?* The neighbours whispered among themselves when they saw a man in the widows yard. *What will people say?* In the village where...
“Ever thought, Emily, that when things get complicated, the simplest solutions are often the best? The kind we women struggle to embrace because we see it...
Already Another One? “What will people think?” the neighbors whispered when they saw a man in the widows yard. In a village where everyone knows each...
Once, long ago, in a quiet village nestled in the rolling hills of Yorkshire, a woman named Eleanor Whitcombe sat with her friend Margaret over a...
Alice visited her every other day, leaving food and water by the bedside before slipping away. I have a neighbour named Alice. Her mother had lived...
“Oh, you think *you’ve* got problems, little sis? Well, that flat isnt yours to begin with.” My mums sister never had kids, but she did have...
Emily visited her mother every other day. Shed leave food and water by the bed before slipping out. Ive got a neighbour named Emily. Her mum...
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....
**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...