**The Fickle Heart** I never thought myself a beauty. Nor even pretty, truth be told. Not everyone can
Elderly Woman Struggles to Rise and Go to the Yard with a Bowl of Bread. The elderly woman hauled herself
Twice a week, my father would leave the house for hours at a time, returning full of energy and in the
I was allowed to choose which parent I wanted to live with. Two years later, I regretted my decision.
– “Emily, please come home, I beg you…” – “Mum, you know I wont.”
**Diary Entry** The moment he walked out, I knew hed planned it all. Simon hadnt even bothered with a
At the wedding, a little girl approached with a bouquet of daisies and asked for a coin the bride noticed
*”We didnt invite her,”* whispered the daughter-in-law, spotting me at the door. *”
The morning Sarah left was drizzlya soft rain barely tapping against the windows of their modest house
“How can you call me granny? Im only fifty with a bit extra. Do I look that old? she grumbled