I cannot believe it. Once again, as twenty years ago, I find myself twirling with you in a waltz. Do you recall our last encounter? It...
15February2025 Manchester Royal Infirmary, Night Shift When the stretcher was wheeled into the emergency bay, it was obvious we were dealing with a drowning victim. Outside...
I’m sorry, Mum, I couldnt just leave them there, my 16yearold son blurted out as he tottered into the flat clutching two newborn babies. When Josh...
Two years ago Edward had everything: a home, a wife named Ethel, plans for the future, hopes Now there is nothing left. The pain of loss...
My names Charlie. Im a Labrador, a handsome lad that everyone fancies. Occasionally I get a bit fed up with the whole lot then I have...
Father, would you mind if we stayed with you for a few months? George asked, his voice tentative. Dont mind, his father replied shortly. Their parents...
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Hello, my former husband! You probably never read this letter, and that hardly matterseverything has already been said. Over the years I look back on our...
The TailEnd Partner At work nobody really liked Fed they didnt despise him, they just kept their distance. He was sensible, an experienced driver and a...
Dont come back, Father, the little girl whispered, her voice trembling like the thin mist that clings to the River Thames at dawn. Whenever you leave,...
Ill never forget the night I brought my wife, Eleanor, home from St.Marys Hospital in Devon. Shed given birth to...
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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...