I wasn’t faring well at the Backseat Olympics. Scratch that—I hadn’t even reached the continent where they were […]
Short stories
A Modern Fairy Tale Rosemary was not actually a princess, not in the strictest sense of being born […]
I’ve been unfaithful to my partner, her best friend says. Amber thinks, so have I. Amber can guess […]
No, Fiona, I’ll get it! Look in the dirty laundry…Hello?…William, that poor dog is not a pony!… Judy! […]
Mrs. O’Reilly sat at the kitchen table polishing the spoons, wondering where she had gone wrong. Pregnancy had […]
The Covid-19 pandemic sent shock waves through the community centre, but eventually we returned to what passes for […]
‘You’ll have another will ya, Jan?’ Siobhan asks over her shoulder on the way up to the bar, […]
I made a mistake. I should never have agreed to go shopping on Christmas Eve with my heavily […]
Chloe is the one. She’s the woman I’ve been waiting for all my life. There’s just one minor […]
I have too many shoes, but that wasn’t always so. As a child reared in a poor family […]
Irma proclaims herself to be a news junkie. Unlike myself, she reads the daily newspapers, paragraph by paragraph. […]
Adam grabbed a tiny bottle of water from the table at the entrance as he walked into the […]
I don’t know why I chose to dress as a nun. More than one blessed Sister had been […]
The first time my now-husband told me he loved me, we were standing next to his car in […]