“Is it still raining?” Kurt asked, glancing towards the front room. He and his wife, Melissa, had been indoors for a long time because of the torrential rain outside: they were living in the north of England, where rain was as common as anything, but even they hadn’t seen a downpour like this one. Water [...]
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“What is your problem?” Simon shouted, aggressively moving towards the man on the other side of the table. Across from him was his best friend, Richard, but he barely recognised him. Richard wasn’t the one who’d changed; it was Simon. His dependency on alcohol had become stronger and stronger over the course of the last [...]
“Angela, are you alright?” Peter put his arm around his friend. He had stepped out of his car and approached her. He’d been waiting outside while Angela had been inside the nursing home to see her father. She went everyday, without fail, no matter what her other arrangements were. Her work commitments were always pushed [...]
The small boat drifted out into the lake’s still water with the aid of a push from one of the people on the shore. In the distance, the sun was setting over the sands of the beach and the sky was dyed a deep, blood like red colour, with the grey clouds turning orange in [...]
Elissa was eight years old when it happened. Still she dreamt about that night and she could remember it as vividly as she saw real life: she’d hoped that, as the years pass by, the memories and the pain of that dreadful evening would fade, but they hadn’t. They had remained and she could see [...]
