**Diary Entry** *15th May 2023* Love, can you pick me up from work? Emily called her husband, hoping to skip the exhausting forty-minute bus ride after...
“Katie, Mum,” Victor began softly when they were alone in the kitchen, “I’ve been meaning to talk to you about something.” Kathleen glanced up, surprised. It...
“Get out of here, you filthy old man!” they shouted after him as they threw him out of the hotel. Only later did they find out...
“Think what you like about me, but youll never prove a thing,” the mother-in-law hissed, cornering her daughter-in-law with a cruel ultimatum. “Well, Mary, listen carefully....
**Diary Entry 12th October** When the rumble of the BMWs engine faded into the trees, the silence pressed down on me like a heavy quilt. I...
Why did I agree to let my son and his wife move in with me? I still dont know. Im Vera Simmons, living in a two-bedroom...
When I stepped out of the showerwhere Id stood under the water for at least ten minutes, numb, not feeling the heat or the coldhe was...
The story continued. Weve decided it would be better if you lived separatelyDenis murmured at last, as though afraid of his own words. Separately?Anna stared at...
“You can think whatever you like about me, but youll never prove a thing,” the mother-in-law sneered, her voice dripping with menace as she backed her...
Emily clutched her stomach, curled into herself on the sofa, every muscle taut with pain. The familiar agony twisted inside hersharp, relentlessher body betraying her again....