The delivery suite at St. Mary’s Hospital in London was unusually crowded. Though every sign pointed to a perfectly normal birth, twelve doctors, three senior nurses...
Emily had been an orphan since she was five. Her mother fell ill and died, and soon after her father vanished from her life. Six months...
I used to drift past shop windows, staring at the food displays as if I could eat them with my eyes. Id picture what my thin...
I stepped out of the StThomas Hospital in London and, as I reached the automatic doors, I brushed shoulders with a man. Excuse me, he said,...
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Oliver Bennett married Emily Hart on purpose to give Martha Clarke a proper sting. He wanted to prove he could move on after her betrayal. Hed...
Your duties also include cleaning the office, the receptionist says, leaning back in her swivel chair. And what, youre an accountant? If you dont like it,...
The memory of that day still clings to me like the faint scent of hospital antiseptic. I stared fixedly at the sign that read Operating Theatre....
A dirty dog sits by the gate three weeks later Emma realises why fate sent him. Emma spots him on a Monday morning as she walks...
Emma darted from room to room, trying to cram the essentials into a battered suitcase. Her movements were frantic, jerky, as if some unseen pursuer chased...
Ill never forget the night I brought my wife, Eleanor, home from St.Marys Hospital in Devon. Shed given birth to...
The Hawthorne manor sits quiet almost every dayspotless, chilled, and costly. Jonathan Hawthorne, a millionaire always in a sharp suit...
Ellie had always lived, as the saying goes, by the book, trudging along a dull, overused lane with her head...
Enough! Im done carrying the whole lot of you on my back! No more penniesgo feed yourselves however you wish!...
The street was bustling today, as it always is in spring when the city finally feels the warm sun after...
Her boss Sally was hurrying to the office, dreadfully lateshe imagined the nightmare of standing before the editorinchief without having...
Youre a burden, not a wife, my motherinlaw announced, her voice cutting through the chatter as I was refilling the...
The old matriarch, Margaret Whitcombe, tended to her potted ferns on the sill, each leaf glistening like tiny lanterns. Suddenly...
Go on and trash your mum all you like, but if you utter another word about my mother that I...
Im Thomas Miller, a farmhand from the little village of Somerby in North Yorkshire, and Ill tell you how Valerie...