Meet my old man

Dear Arron, W henever I introduce you ...

THERE’S a nice new girl working at the Post Office,” I said casually, as I unpacked my shopping on to the kitchen table. “Oh?” my daughter Debra answered, without looking up from her book. “Yes,” I co

Walking into the day room after her weekly Zoom call with her daughter in Canada, Hester was pleased to see Phyllis and Donald there. Good company, both. On the TV an anodyne politician was spouting t

Ben hunched over in the cab of the lorry, eyes cast down, earphones firmly in place. He tugged his hoodie further over his face and ramped up his music, trying to drown out his stepdad, along with the

Tasha Edwards’ summer fling had fizzled out. Then an unexpected stranger sent the temperature soaring…

Glancing around my friend’s wedding reception last year, I was waiting for my parents to arrive when one of Mum’s friends strode over with a big smile. ‘Dawn - hi!’ he said, hugging me and launching i