A Little Diversion

Regina locked the bathroom door. She hung her bathrobe up and pushed the potty from the middle of the floor with the side of her foot. It hadn’t been used the previous night, a sign the Little Madam, as she called her daughter, was getting the idea of not waking Mammy at night. She stepped [...]

Marie nudged the pony up the rugged path. Shaggy obliged, neatly stepping through the switchbacks of the steep track. They were sheltered here, once they reached the ridge the wind would hit them directly, blowing across the bogs and whipping up the water on the lake. In the hour she’d been riding M...

“Good Lord! How did you get in here?” Mrs. O’Connor stared at the tall man standing in her kitcher. His hair was slicked back from a high forehead and his goatee was perfectly trimmed. There was a faint smell of burnt toast. “I swear I just checked all the doors. And I lock a...

James forgot as he stepped out of bed. Luckily Janine was in the kitchen making tea so he was spared her sarcastic sympathies. He pulled himself up on the bed and looked at the bandage. The wound ached after his fall but there were no signs of seepage or bleeding. He dressed carefully, leaving a [.....

The child is her own and yet he’s not. June recognises her eyes but the hair is different. It’s a sandy brown she knows to be soft and fragrant, unlike her own dry blond. His hand is snug in hers, pulling her shoulder down so she stoops to the right. His grasp is firm, confident [...]