Did You Ever Have a Family? is founded on an incident that for most people would be too much to bear thinking about. On the morning of what had been due to be a joyous occasion that most mothers dream of, the morning of June Reid’s daughter’s wedding, a fire engulfs…
After buying the drinks, Peter carried them over to the corner sofas that Lisa had settled in. On his way over, he looked at her, wondering how he could have missed her back at university. How did this gem slip the net? He placed the drinks on the table and…
Part 2: Liz’s heart was beating so hard and fast that she could nearly hear it herself as Luke turned the door handle and stepped inside. “You staying out there?” he said as he put his bag down and popped his keys into the bowl on the table by the…
Part 1 of 2 Liz stared at the body on the living room floor and wondered what her next plan of action should have been. She looked around the room, which was filled with an incongruous calm. The sun streamed through the window at the front of the house, which…
Part 1 Dan began to feel uneasy when his best friend Luke called him to tell him that he is on his way over with Spike. Dan was in the garden collecting snails when his Mum shouted down the garden that Luke was on the phone. He raced up to…
Honor walked into the surgery and signed in using the touch screen by the door. She entered the waiting room and quickly found a seat in the far corner of the room by the window, picking up the first crumpled magazine she found on her way. Honor glanced up and…
“Sam, the tension created between a couple, from not being able to have a baby is just unbearable. I will not be able to convey the agony of this to you in words. We spent 12 years trying to have a baby. The first 2 or 3 years went by…
As I struggled through the masses of people to get onto the 159 on Oxford Street, I mildly cursed the tourists in my mind and wondered what it was about this part of London that they all loved so much. It wasn’t just the tourists though was it? People who…
The unfortunate sequence of events that led to the death of Mr Sniffles was rather unbelievable. He had gone across the road to Mr Sweeney’s garden to investigate further on the community of squirrels that had settled in the oak tree there. Mr Sweeney came out to shoo him away…