**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...
Early Spring Little Emily, a four-year-old girl, studied the “newcomer” who had recently appeared in their neighbourhood. He was a silver-haired pensioner sitting on a bench,...
“It seems youve forgotten that this flat is minebought before the wedding!” I said coolly when I heard my husband confidently giving orders about my home....
**Diary Entry 12th November** The shout came from belowsharp, urgentcutting through the quiet of the grand Harrington Hall. “Fire! The kitchens on fire!” Within moments, chaos...