by Valerie | Jul 29, 2018 | Creative Writing, Short Stories
She lifted the beaters from the bowl and cake batter splattered all over everything. “That’s your fault!” Angela screamed. “Why did you have to choose now to tell me?” James looked sheepish. “Well, it was better than telling you...
by Valerie | Oct 25, 2017 | Creative Writing, Short Stories
Julie mused back to Millennium night. She and several of her best friends had all gathered together to celebrate the year 2000 and what a party they had! Who would ever have thought that less than a thousand days later she and her husband would be divorced, and living...
by Valerie | Sep 21, 2016 | Creative Writing, Short Stories
Sally couldn’t sleep. She was too hot. She looked at the clock. Three a.m. Sally glanced at her sleeping husband Roger as she slid out of the bed. Nothing ever woke him. She envied how he could sleep undisturbed all night. It was stifling. Sally sighed as she...
by Valerie | Aug 9, 2016 | Creative Writing, Short Stories
I met Rob in Spring. We had been chatting on an internet dating site and, after about a month of lighthearted on-line banter, I agreed to give him my phone number. We chatted every evening for about a week before we arranged to meet in a public place for a coffee. I...
by Valerie | May 19, 2016 | Creative Writing, Short Stories
It was 5.45am on a Sunday morning in May. Most normal people were still in bed, taking it easy after working hard all week. Not so my husband. He was up with the lark as usual. Sundays were the only days he could do this particular job, when the factory was closed....
by Valerie | May 17, 2016 | Creative Writing, Short Stories
“Picture yourself in a boat on a river…” The Beatles song was playing softly on the radio in the background. First of all I thought of tangerine clouds and marmalade skies, then I relaxed, closed my eyes and thought of myself on a boat, but it...
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