In a bustling city where towering buildings raced each other to touch the clouds, impatient traffic lights blinked, and streets carried the scent of rain mingled...
“Cheer up, Dave! Chin upat least you had a brilliant New Years!” There it washis hometown. Dave stepped off the train, crossed the station square, and...
In a bustling city, where skyscrapers raced to touch the clouds, traffic lights blinked impatiently, and the streets carried the scent of rain mixed with petrol,...
In the dimmest, most forgotten corner of the municipal animal shelter, where even the flickering fluorescent light seemed reluctant to linger, lay a dog curled upon...
“Get in the kitchen now!” My husbands voice cut through the air, and something inside me snapped. Emily stared at her phone screen. For the fourth...
In the darkest, most remote corner of the municipal animal shelter, where even the flickering fluorescent lights refused to reach, lay a dog curled upon a...
So, youll never believe this storyits a bit of a rollercoaster. Emily found out she was pregnant. Her husband, George, stuck by her side the whole...
Waking in the dead of night, Emily felt an emptiness beside her. Disoriented, she reached out, expecting the familiar warmth of her husband, James. But sleep...
Margaret was arranging freshly laundered tea towelsnew ones, with a dainty rose patternwhen her phone buzzed. She sighed: three missed calls from Beatrice, her colleague. Likely...
Emily was arranging the freshly ironed kitchen towelsnew ones, with a dainty rose printwhen her phone buzzed. She sighed: three missed calls from Charlotte, a colleague....
After descending the slope toward the waters edge, Michael sized up the cats chances of survival. The steady flow of...
“Father, please… dont come to the school today, all right?” “Why, Emmeline? Dont you want me to see you receive...
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...