Laird was leaving the coffee shop when he spotted Emma, his colleague Bradley’s wife. Tucking the newspaper under the arm carrying the coffee, he used his free hand to open the door. She was just passing by when he called out to her. She turned and her face broke into a big smile. “Hello, Laird.”… Read More Laird Lunches With Emma
As she approached his table, hatred rose in her throat like bile. He was responsible for Dabuku’s death. He knew that her husband had respiratory problems yet he put him on the concourse anyway. Dabuku and another worker were working on the concourse at Victoria Station in London when a man spat and coughed in… Read More Coffee?
It was Monday morning and Lillian was still feeling tired from a very busy weekend. Before going to the office, she stopped at Tim Horton’s for a coffee. She grabbed one for Kabir as well. He was on a conference call so she quietly popped into his office, set the coffee down on his desk… Read More The Dinner
To the casual observer he was a regular bloke sitting on a picnic table in the park having coffee, a cheese burger and fries but he was a retired cop waiting for his ex-partner’s widow. She called him that morning and asked him to meet her here. He knew it was dumb of him… Read More Jenny
Renee got into her car and drove over to Callum’s flat. He had invited her over for dinner. When she told her friends, they were shocked. They couldn’t believe that a bookworm had much of a social life. They concluded that although he was very attractive, no woman would want to date a man who… Read More The Candlelight Dinner
Never in all the years she worked with Gabriel did she anticipate falling in love with him. She had been so determined to keep their relationship purely professional and then, out of the blue, she developed feelings for him. She blamed it on all those nights they worked together on different projects. He was so… Read More Working Overtime
A picture of total calm, she sat there, watching the people enter the ballroom. She had the advantage of facing the entrance. Demure in her new white dress, her black hair swept back from with several curls framing her face, she received admiring glances from the gentlemen but she was oblivious. Her eyes intermittingly taking… Read More The Ball
Depression: Let’s talk This month, WHO launched a one-year campaign Depression: let’s talk. The goal of the campaign is that more people with depression, in all countries, seek and get help. Depression is an illness that can happen to anybody. It causes mental anguish and affects people’s ability to carry out everyday tasks, with sometimes devastating consequences for relationships… Read More Depression
He sat in a corner under the bridge. It was raining so he huddled against the wall, wrapped in his dingy blankets, trying to keep warm. He longed for a cup of coffee but he didn’t want to go out into the wet to beg. From where he sat, he could see the busy street… Read More Broke to Blessed
Notes to Women 