October 2025 – Page 18

**A Life Gone By** *Aunt Zoe, wheres Mikey?* *What do you want him for?* *We were supposed to go berry-picking

Mums Heart “Mum, whos Phyllis? Is she our owner? Then why does she feed us so poorly?”

**Diary Entry, 12th of April** I never thought I’d be writing this, but here we are. Yesterday

**When Love Passed Me By: Life With a Woman Who Broke Me Every Day**My silence lasted too long.

When my dad walked out on us, my stepmum pulled me out of the hell of the orphanage. Ill always be grateful

William got into his car, ready to leave work, when suddenly his phone rang. The number was unfamiliar.

The doctor glanced over my test results and urgently called in the head of the department. “

The dining room felt like a stage set for a play no one wanted to perform. *”I dont see the point

Emily pulled her car to a stop just up the road from her mother-in-laws house. The clock read 17:45she

No one remembered her when she was little, but the moment she began earning money, her parents suddenly