Walton Merritt

The Vengeance of a Scorned Woman Anton, a physics teacher at a village school, had married for the second time.

**Diary Entry 25th Wedding Anniversary** Just now, I thought to myselfperhaps were some sort of *wrong* family.

“Papa, don’t go! Darling, dont leave us! Daddy, dont buy me anything else, or Alfie either.

“I just dont understand you, love. Youre a woman, after allwhats that poor little girl done wrong?

Liam shoved the front door open hard, letting the icy gloom of early dusk spill into the dim hallway.

Betrayal, Shock, Mystery. Natalie was preparing dinner when there was a knock at the door. “

I woke at five in the morning, the sky outside just beginning to lighten with the first hints of dawn.

She wasnt truly theirs, those five But who could say George had lost his wife. She never recovered from

Margaret woke to find herself in an unfamiliar roomwhite walls, antiseptic scent, a bed too narrow to

“Mum, maybe we should just let Gran wander off and get lost? It’d be better for everyone,”