loneliness
In Answer to Your Question
In Answer to Your Question written by: Mary Bevan ‘Can we have a word?’ you say, coming...
The Mouse on the Hearth
The Mouse on the Hearth written by: Cathy Anderson - In the English county of Essex, but far from the coast and the cold North Sea...
Tangled Traditions
TANGLED TRADITIONS written by: Karen Southall Watts - Thank goodness for long-suffering nurses, the man thought as he...
Paying it Forward
Paying it Forward written by: Bill Tope - Seated on the sofa, Elliott stretched out his limbs and heard the joints pop...
Up In The Sky
Up In The Sky written by: Shelagh Sutton - In the wide corridor, Éabha leaps from one orange square to the next...
The Light We Keep
The Light We Keep written by: Itunu Taiwo - From her kitchen window, Sade watched as the last light bulb...
An Old Man’s Christmas Eve
An Old Man’s Christmas Eve written by: LaVern Spencer McCarthy He lives alone inside a rusted shack...
Maurice Chips AKA Father Christmas
Maurice Chips AKA Father Christmas written by: Sharon P Wilson - Maurice Chips was an ordinary man. He lived in an ordinary house with his old dad...
A New Nose for Rudolph
A New Nose for Rudolph written by: Penny Rogers - Waiting on Christmas Eve; Neil was used to it by now. For more than 46 years...
Broken Halo Blues
Broken Halo Blues written by: Richard Wall - The snow came down like spilled ash, a grey powder that stuck to nothing but the cracks...
Zombie
Zombie Last Matchstick written by: Alix WYH The smoke fades slowly in the air. -2 degrees. A...
The Lonely Hour
The Lonely Hour written by: Sarfraz Ahmed There is a loneliness So deep that it penetrates To...
Every Day, at Five A.M.
Every Day, at Five A.M. written by: William Gratton She’d wake to the gulls, an empty, gurgling...
