There are many things in life that are easier said than done, and moving on is one of them. How many people over the generations have been told to move on, and felt obliged to do so, rather like an assignment set at school? Or a New Year’s resolution never to be kept but [...]
The Diary Keeper Wendy Skorupski It is the winter of 1992 in post-communist Poland. Leo Ferenc is an introverted bachelor with faded rock star looks, a club foot, and a chip on his shoulder. He owns a small photocopying shop in the heart of Krakow - a medieval city that is just waking up to [...]
PROLOGUE There are some people in life who are very annoying, and my lover is one of them. Bloody infuriating, in fact. Not that I don't love him, otherwise why would I use the word lover? I never use words lightly any more; my lover prohibited that. He's a linguist, you see; he won't allow [...]
The Grass is NOT Always Greener! How is it that when you lose someone you loved, whether it be through death or the break-up of a relationship, you always glorify the past? I suppose that’s a good thing when it comes to death – it’s the mind’s auto-mechanism of softening the pain. After all, when [...]
Who believes in the L’ word? No, I don’t mean Litigation or Libel or Lust or Lasciviousness or Lechery or Lingerie. I mean LOVE, obviously. I love you. How many times do we use that word, that clichéd phrase, during the course of our lives? Parent to child, child to parent, partner to partner, spouse [...]
When Errant Hubby first read my latest novel, way back in the early spring, he was so taken with it that he confessed to feeling a sudden resurgence of love for me. But I wasn’t to be fooled. No doubt this was inspired by all the sexy bits which turned him on. After all, my [...]
Moving on is easier said than bloody done. Move on? Erm - sorry, but how, exactly? How do you move on when you’ve been with someone for twenty-one years and have never been apart for more than a couple of weeks in all that time? How do you move on without them when you know [...]
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