Author: Harlan Covington

You know, I’ve kept this inside for so long. Everyone always asked, ‘Sarah, how are things with James?

**March 15th** I wasn’t living. I was just existing. Seventy-two years old, a one-bedroom flat on the

I’d been at the job centre for thirty-two years when Victor Thompson walked in with his expensive cufflinks

You can come over on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but leave your toothbrush at home. — dealing with an ice-cold

“Why do you have to be so harsh?” Andrew stared at his wife in disbelief. “Emily’s in trouble.

The dog appeared at the bakery in the last week of September, when the mornings already smelled of wet

Emily sets her bag down and stops at the gate. Rex sits by the porch — a big, reddish dog with grey on

Claudia Matthews’ grandson turned twenty, and for all those twenty years Claudia had known: he

I came home from work starving, so get something ready. The man I’d been seeing for six months said one

“Once you’ve given birth to a daughter, not a son, clear out of the flat,”