15April2025 I stepped onto the garden terrace, leaning on my wooden cane, the air scented with orange blossoms and salty sea breeze. Behind me stood Lady...
Take the wheel, Annie! Do whatever you like! Tessa sighed wearily. Yes, it feels like a fairytale, not a life! Annie winked at her friend, said...
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They say a wife should be at least ten years younger than her husband, as if nature herself had decreed that a man must be accompanied...
28October2025 Dear Diary, Tonight the neighbour, MrsMarjorie Ellis, peered over the garden fence with a puzzled look. Ian? Are you home? I thought you were in...
Hold it, you wanker! the shout rang out, and the slap landed square on the cheek. Olivia Andersons face flushed, her cheeks tingling as onlookers gasped...
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When the door swung open, for a heartbeat I thought I was looking at a spectre from my past. Poppy stepped in slowly, as if she...
I have kept a diary ever since I was a lad, and today I feel compelled to record the life of Evelyn Whitaker, a woman whose...
Youre a real treasure, you know that? Again? Emma, who on earth did you have that child for? For yourself or for us? I get home...
Step back! he roared. I never vowed to marry you! And I dont even know whose baby this is. Maybe...
Emily was being way too clingy about helping around the house, so I gave her a gentle shove toward the...
Margaret, must I keep calling you Mrs. Whitaker? I asked, trying to keep the tremor out of my voice. Explain...
26October2025 I can hardly believe Im writing this, but I need to get it out of my head before the...
I stopped ironing Jamess shirts the day he dismissed my work as just sitting at home. Come on, Emily, what...
James said he was off on a work trip, but I found his car parked outside my best friends flat....
The brides mother, Margaret Whitfield, slid me into the worst table with a sardonic smile. Know your place, she sneered....
Rain tapped against the sill of the little rented twobedroom flat. James watched the droplets trace strange patterns on the...
Granddad, yes! Sam, a lanky boy wrapped in a coat far too big for him, clutched his grandfathers hand, shuffling...
The Keller manor in Surrey sat poised in its immaculate, chilly silence most days, its marble corridors echoing only with...