November 2025 – Page 57

**A Chance Encounter** Emily blinked in surprise as her husband, James, stepped into the train compartment

Why are you calling me? I dont even remember you!Why should I welcome you into our home? I have no recollection of you!

**Scraps of Love** Mum was never idle. The moment she had a spare minute, shed pick up her knitting needles.

Martha The village whispered that shed lost her wits in her old age. Many avoided her cottage, calling

I put the cheeky sister-inlaw back in her placeI dismissed my husbands impulsive sisterMom says the restaurant

**Diary Entry** “Mum, you left the light on all night again!” Oliver said impatiently as

**LOVING PATIENTLY, ENDURING LOVINGLY** John and Emily had a church wedding. On their wedding day, as

Oliver married at twenty-four. His wife, Emily, was twenty-twothe only and rather late arrival in the

The Boy from Beyond Saved His Mother A small boy called me, pleading to save his dying mother.

I became an orphan at six. My mother already had two daughters and was giving birth to a third.