Walton Merritt

A Fair Agreement Margaret slipped away slowly and painfully. Her body, exhausted by endless rounds of

**The Promotion** Everyone knows there are different ways to get a promotion. Some earn it through hard

Polly smoothed her dress in front of the mirror, swiped rosy lipstick across her lips, then fluffed a

Ingrid didn’t notice the quiet roll of the hospital trolley wheels over the linoleum or the hurried footsteps

The Most Important Man At the start of November, the weather turned bitterly cold. A sharp, icy drizzle

**A Bouquet of Daisies in November** Emily tightened her robe and stepped to the window. Barely a leaf

**Diary Entry – December 12th** The snow had transformed the garden overnight. As I stepped outside

Fourteen years ago, on a chilly winter evening, a young woman called Charlotte hurried down High Street

Penny had always been pretty—petite, strawberry blonde, with a figure that turned heads and a face fit

The Fragile Woman That September, a new girl named Daisy joined the class. She was so delicate and slight