Author: Emily Taylor
Mother, I forgive you! Anne Porter lay still, the night folding around her like a heavy quilt.
24December I told my wife, Emily, and my sister, Sarah, that we were inviting them over for NewYears Eve.
Daniel hands Blythe a bottle of water. She takes it with trembling fingers and steps out of the car.
I still recall the day when William Harper, with a bitter spit, muttered, I took her, they say, as a
I only asked where the eggs for the pie had gone, and I was called stingy: my daughterinlaw decided to
Morning came and Lily Harper awoke feeling terribly ill. Just a day before she had been at the old churchyard
Emily, think a hundred times before you sign that consent to give up your baby. Afterwards itll be too
He rang the doorbell with a sharp, urgent knock that announced someones arrival. Lucy slipped off her
Ethel Hawthorne was broadshouldered and heavy. At thirty she tipped the scales at one hundred and twenty
I caught my daughterinlaw off guard on her birthday without her realizing it.Neither my son nor my daughterinlaw







