I invited all the relatives to dinner and served each one a beautiful but empty plate with an intricate design. Only before my granddaughter did I...
The dinner table stretched long and solemn under the chandeliers ghostly glow. Id summoned the entire family, laying before each a fine porcelain plateempty, save for...
I invited the entire family to dinner and served each of them a fine but empty plate with a delicate pattern. Only before my granddaughter did...
**Diary Entry** I invited the entire family to dinner and set before each of them a beautiful, yet empty, porcelain plate. Only my granddaughters place held...
The Daughter-in-Law with the “Extra” “Emma, has your son gotten married? I saw him with a woman and a little boy. Did he take on a...
The Daughter-in-Law with “Baggage” “Margaret, is it true your son has married? I saw him with a woman and a little boy. Did he take her...
A Daughter-in-Law with “Baggage” “Olivia, did your son get married? I saw him with a woman and a little boy. Did he take on someone else’s...
“Olive, is it true your son got married? I saw him with a woman and a little boy. Did he take on a ‘ready-made family,’ then?”...
The morning crept in slowly through the drawn blinds, casting a pale, cold light into the room. Eleanor was already seated on the edge of the...
In a quiet rural village in the south of England, where a family scraped by on a small patch of farmland and backbreaking work on construction...