‘I don't want to do this.’ The reality was, he wanted nothing more. 'It's not what you claim to want or not to want, it's what we need to ascertain to our complete satisfaction. We need to test you.’ There was no flexibility in her assertion and she conti...

Her husband had left her; after thirty years. She hadn't seen it coming. With hindsight, she should have; without foresight, she didn't. Sharon, her closest friend, seemed unsympathetic. ‘You dress like a frump,’ she said, dismissing her abandoned friend...