November 2025 – Page 15

Dad, did you really bring a cat home? Emma Whitaker asked, her voice trembling as she stepped off the

Who are you?!Yulia froze in her apartment doorway, eyes wide with disbelief.Before her stood an unfamiliar

Monday, 12May2025 I received a call this morning while sorting the invoices for the firm. Emily, an old

Dear Diary, I pulled up in the company car in front of our cottage in the Cotswolds. Exhausted from the

I still recall the day I chose not to attend my only sons wedding, as if it were a scene from a longago

Svetlana, but its freezing there in winter! Youll need a stove, firewood, and wood heating!

Mom will stay with us, your folks can keep living out in the village, Oliver said matteroffactly.

The number was dead, the line forever silent, the voice in the void muttering: Number no longer in service.

Will you take me back to the orphanage? Will you take me back to the orphanage? Auntie said you rushed

Daisy, dont think the worst of me! the old man pressed his trembling hands together. Im not a tramp.