Cyrus Hargrave

**No Wedding** Emily graduated from teacher training college with top honors, dreaming of university.

Not Everything Is as It Seems Before her morning rounds, Nurse Nina slipped into the doctors’ lounge

Not Everything Is as It Seems Before her morning rounds, Nurse Nina slipped into the doctors’ lounge

“So it was all your doing, Gran?” asked Emily, gazing at the portrait. After the row with her husband

*”We didn’t waste time, we just took the long road to happiness,”* said Emily, nestling closer

**No Other Way** “Hello, Seraphina. How’ve you been? Haven’t seen you in ages. Still no husband for that

“Hullo. We never did go to that cinema, did we?” he blurted out, all his carefully prepared

Once Upon a Time… Margaret had always been a well-behaved child—studious, responsible, never causing

“Don’t you dare say that? She was your mother! You wept at her bedside, and now you won’t even bury her?

If only we had met sooner… Victoria arrived at the doctor’s surgery right on time, collected