Homeless and Hopeless: A Desperate Search for Shelter Emily had nowhere to go. Truly, nowhere at all. “I could stay a few nights at the train...
A Hasty Farewell: A Goodbye from the Car and the Return Home He stepped out of the car and bid his lover a tender goodbye before...
**Diary Entry** I still dont quite know why Emily started knitting those baby booties. Her daughter was already forty. Two years ago, shed been widowed, never...
Why Emma started knitting baby booties, even she didnt know. Her daughter had just turned forty. Two years ago, shed been widowed, never having had children....
**Avenged His Mother** The voice on the phone was distorted, cold. *”Your daughter is with us. Bring £100,000, and she lives. Youll get the coordinates later.”*...
The woman had just turned seventya milestone! For the occasion, she bought fabric and ordered a dresselegant, delicate, utterly beautiful. To match, she found silver earrings...
The woman turned seventy. A milestone birthday! For the occasion, she bought fabric and ordered a dresselegant, beautiful. She also found a pair of expensive silver...
Of course, he remembered everything perfectly. *”I dont remember because it never happened!”* said Peter Redford seriously, looking at her with his honest, elderly eyes. The...
“Who are you looking for?” Mary Fairweather stepped onto the porch with Nicholas at her side, eyeing the stranger. “Im here for Mary Fairweather! Im her...
**Diary Entry** *Spring has finally arrived.* The sun warmed the old wooden bench where Margaret Whitmore sat, her face turned toward the light. She let out...
Emma stepped back into her own home from the maternity wardand there, in the kitchen, stood a second fridge. “That...
On her way to the shop, Emily suddenly recognised the mother of her first true love in the elderly woman...
After descending the slope leading to the water, Michael assessed the cats chances of survival. The steady flow of the...
“Excuse me… where am I?” the woman murmured, staring blankly out the car window as though lost in a daze....
“Excuse me… where am I?” the woman asked softly, peering out the car window as if the world outside made...
“Has he still not called, Mum?” asked Andrew, gazing at the woman hunched over the table with bare, pleading eyes....
**Diary Entry 23rd December, 1985** *”Has he still not called, Mum?” asked Andrew, staring at the woman sitting at the...
One day, my dads new wife showed up with a big box of sweets and two little poodles wagging their...
**Diary Entry 15th May, 2024** Every day, I walk to my grandsons school. Im not a teacher or staffjust a...
One afternoon, my fathers second wife appeared at our doorstep. In her hands was a box full of sweets, and...