**Stepping onto Solid Ground** “Good luck, love—knock ’em dead with those exams,”
**The Part-Time Husband** “Splendid. You made your wife a baby and now you’re running back to your
**A Difficult Choice** Emily and her husband, James, had sent their children to stay with her parents
**Diary Entry** This morning, I watched my son, Oliver, leave for his university entrance exams with
I stood by the window in my mother’s hospital room, the air thick with the stale tang of rubber and antiseptic.
The Last Carriage Elizabeth strolled leisurely toward the supermarket, watching the bustle around her—especially
Much depends on fate. Often, people themselves make their lives difficult and unbearable, but in time
**Diary Entry – A Bitter Heart** It was Emily’s fifteenth year when her parents told her they were expecting
**Diary Entry: A Late Bloom of Happiness** “Nina, it’s Ilya’s parents’ meeting at six tonight.
Emily was fifteen when her parents told her they were expecting another baby. She stomped her feet and