Walton Merritt

Things Aren’t What They Seem Before her morning rounds, Nurse Emily stepped into the office and confided: “

Things Aren’t What They Seem Before her morning rounds, Nurse Emily stepped into the office and confided: “

*So it was all your doing, Gran?* asked Julie, staring at the portrait. After the fight with her husband

**Diary Entry** *Sunday* *”We didn’t waste time—we were just taking the long road to our happiness,”

The breeze from the Thames carried the faint scent of rain as Emily tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear.

**Could It Be Any Other Way?** “Hello, Seraphina. How are you? Long time no see. Your daughter

Polly had always been a well-behaved child. She did well in school and never caused much trouble for

“How can you not? She’s your mother! You wept by her bedside, and now you refuse to bury her?

If only we had met sooner… Claire arrived at the health centre at her scheduled time, collected her patient

The thought gnawed at Oliver’s stomach like a rat—what if his parents really did divorce?