He looks just like your missing son, my fiancée whispered. What happened next left the entire street in shock. James Whitmore wasnt used to walking. He...
He looks just like your missing son, my fiancée whispered. What happened next stunned the entire street. Edward Whitcombe wasnt accustomed to walking. The sort of...
**Diary Entry** *10th June, 2023* And what are we doing here? Why are we breaking into someone elses house? Its over, Emily. Finished. I want a...
**Diary Entry** Ill never forget the day we came back from Brighton. Three days awayour first break in yearsjust me and my husband, James. Wed left...
Olivia Whitmore dragged herself up the driveway, bone-tired yet relieved to be home after the long weekend away. For the first time in ages, she and...
The house was thick with silence, broken only by the crackling of the fire in the hearth. Margaret Thompson, her face lined with tired wrinkles, watched...
A dreadful discovery came about by sheer chance. My little four-year-old sister, Lucy, had developed an umbilical hernia. The doctors insisted it mustnt be delayedthe sooner...
**Diary Entry 14th of June** Half my life, Ive lived alone. Not that I never marriedmy husband walked out on me just a year after the...
“WHO COULDN’T LOVE” “Alright then, which one of you is Lily?” The girl squinted at us with a sly, knowing look, her fingers tapping against the...
“WHO COULDN’T LOVE” “Girls, which one of you is Lily?” The young woman gave my friend and me a knowing, playful look. “I’m Lily. Why?” I...
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...