If you fix that engine, Ill give you my post, the manager bellowed, chuckling. Eleanor Harris, unlike the other staff, did not laugh. She knew the...
Ian bolted off to Spain with another woman, leaving Mary to pull together a life for her two kids all on her own and the result...
It was the end of September, and a mournful procession shuffled slowly past a grey stone coffin at the old Manchester Cemetery. Victor lowered his head,...
13May Im still reeling from the parentteacher evening at StJohns Primary. MrsPatel called Tom in for a chat about his maths homework, scolding him for not...
Youll wield great power, but remembereverything has a price. Thats why witches never catch a break in love, my grandmother Miriam warned as she handed me...
Hey love, let me tell you about Olivias story, just like Id chat over a cuppa. Olivia grew up in a comfy family. Her dad was...
Granddad, look! Gwen pressed her nose to the window. A dog! A mangy mutt scurried under the gate black, filthy, ribs sticking out. This blasted mongrel...
The kitchen floor was a slab of cold, hard marble, as unforgiving as a winter morning. There, on that icy surface, sat Mrs. Margaret, a frail...
Mum you smell so lovely in here Im famished! Might I have one of those? the old woman whispered, clutching the patched satchel that had been...
Fix this engine and Ill give you my post, the manager laughed, slapping his knee. I, Teresa Hughes, didnt join in. Id seen that lad before....
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...
I stared at the screen, my hands clenched around a steaming mug of tea. A text from James was brutally...
“I’m fed up with hauling you all on my back! Not a single penny leftgo feed yourselves however you wish!”...
Dear Diary, That’s not my child, the magnate snarled, ordering his wife to take the infant and leave the house....
He chased his wife from the flat, laughing that all shed been left with was a battered old Hotpoint fridge....
You’re a burden, not a wife, my motherinlaw snaps in front of the whole family while Im pouring tea, not...
You’re broke, and I’m successful! Mark bellowed, unaware that I had just sold my useless blog for a fortune. Did...
Go ahead and badmouth your mum all you like, but if you say even one word about my mother that...