My mother raised me alone, and as far back as I can remember, I was the unloved child. That feeling of being unwanted settled on me...
I cant believe it. Once again, twenty years after that night, Im twirling with you in a waltz, the same way we did at the school...
Love is a mischievous thing, isnt it? One afternoon Olesyaalways bright, always a bit impatientasked herself what would happen next. She wondered whether she should wait...
The family verdict was handed down by the elder daughter, Sarah. Because of her sharp temper and lofty expectations of suitors, she had never married, and...
I often think back to that Tuesday, the way one revisits a faded photograph, the edges softened by time but the image still sharp in the...
Patience meets love Jane burst onto the planes stairwell and shouted at the top of her lungs, Edward! Ill love you forever! Ill come back, just...
My names Charlie. Im a Labrador, a friendly chap that everyone takes to. Sometimes, truth be told, Ive got enough of the whole lot and have...
When theres kin, theres always a kerfuffle, as the old English saying goes. Ethel grew up in a tiny hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales and dreamed...
Margaret raised her daughter Evelyn alone, and as far back as Evelyn could remember, shed always been the unwanted child. That feeling of being unloved clung...
The TailWagging Companion Fedor never earned hatred at the depot; he simply gathered distance. A sensible man, a seasoned trucker, and a diligent worker, he was,...
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...