by Valerie | Apr 19, 2012 | Creative Writing, Short Stories, The Cottage
Janice was meticulous in her preparations for her departure. She wasn’t going to take much with her to America. It was going to be a new start for her. A new life in a new country. She packed one small suitcase with all she would need for her first few days in...
by Valerie | Apr 19, 2012 | Creative Writing, Short Stories, The Cottage
He hurled the phone against the wall. It had been ringing incessantly for the last five minutes, so he knew it was urgent, but he had checked the phone and it was a withheld number. He presumed it was “him”. The last twenty minutes were a blur. He had...
by Valerie | Apr 19, 2012 | Creative Writing, Short Stories, The Cottage
A postal worker notices that the mailbox at one of his stops is overflowing, even though the family’s two cars are up the driveway. He is a temporary worker and forgets to report this fact to his superiors. He gets another job the next day, and doesn’t...
by Valerie | Apr 18, 2012 | Creative Writing, Short Stories, The Cottage
We were all alone in the cold and clammy darkness. There was an eerie drip, drip, drip from somewhere further into the cave, almost muffled by the crashing of the waves against the rocks below us. Why on earth had I let Rob persuade me to go climbing over the rocks...
by Valerie | Mar 12, 2012 | Short Stories, The Cottage, wakeupyourmuse.com
I wanted to sympathise with her, but inwardly I was elated that they had broken up. Rob had been my childhood sweetheart, later my boyfriend on and off throughout my teens. Jenny, my sister, had taken him away from me when I was nineteen. At the time, I was...
by Valerie | Feb 15, 2012 | Creative Writing, Short Stories, The Cottage
She was a wonderful liar, my sister, always had been. Only I knew the truth. Now there was likely to be a confrontation, here in my house. Ruth, my best friend, had come round in distress to tell me that she suspected that her husband, Des, was having an affair. My...
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