La vida

Lydia Whitmore stood at her kitchen window, watching her grandson Max hurl stones at the neighbour’s cat.

**A Choice Made by Fate** “Katie, maybe it’s time we stop lying to each other?”

“Honestly, you’re trying!” Margaret threw her hands up in exasperation. “Forty years I’ve watched you *try*!

**OBSESSION** In any workplace full of women, gossip always finds a place to thrive. And as they say

“You see, he’s become quite unmanageable. His grades are slipping, and he comes home late,”

**Part-Time Husband** “Marvellous. You made your wife a baby, then ran back to Mummy’s skirts?

**Diary Entry** I stood by the window in my mother’s hospital room, the air thick with the scent of disinfectant

“Well, what of it? Me and Nigel are doing just fine. We’re a proper family, no scandals, the kids

**Diary Entry, 12th October 2023** Emma scrubbed the stubborn stains off the hob, her hands raw from

Oh, I’ve got this story about Evelyn Carter—such a sweet woman, but her family really took her for granted.