30February2024 Tonight I was on nightshift in the Accident & Emergency department of StMarys Hospital, Manchester. The February air was bitterly cold, the sky a sheet...
Two years ago David had everything: a family, a wife, plans for the future, a whole lot of hope. Now theres nothing left. Its impossible to...
They say that long ago, in the little hamlet of Willowbrook, there lived a woman named Catherine Whitmore, who was famed far and wide as the...
Dad, do you mind if we crash at yours for a couple of months? Tom asked, a hint of hesitation in his voice. Dont mind, his...
Hey, you wont believe whats been going on in our building lately. Weve just got a new caretaker Alex and honestly, hes brilliant. He sweeps the...
Hello, my former husband! Perhaps youll never lay eyes on this letter, and perhaps it matters noteverything has already been spoken. Time, however, has given me...
23October2025 Dear Diary, Ive been trying to keep this day stitched together in my head, and now it feels like the only way to make sense...
My mother was strikingly beautiful, and, according to my father, that was her only merit. I, who adored him with a heart that seemed to stop...
It hurts to realise that love can suddenly turn into a cold, wordless divorce, shattering every illusion of safety and security at home. Where have you...
Monday, 28th November I woke to the shrill ring of my mobile, my daughters voice cracking with panic. Mum, could you get Christopher straight away? All...
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...