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Chilling TRUTH behind my friend’s ‘ perfect’ life
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Chilling TRUTH behind my friend’s ‘ perfect’ life
October is the spookiest month and we’re celebrating all things Halloween at Fiction Feast with some spine-chilling stories. In Wrong Turn, on page 10, Jenny’s sat nav suddenly has a message for her from beyond the grave. But is it...
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Iwas three days into being engaged and already sick of the word ‘fiancée.’ Not because I didn’t love Jonathan – I adored him – but because every time I said it, my best friend Tanya sucked her teeth like I’d told her I was marrying a lamppost. ‘Men...
Carrie had been scrolling rescue sites for 40 minutes, Scruff’s chin heavy on her thigh, when she realised the dog beside her was sighing in exactly the way she did at three o’clock on a Sunday. ‘You’re lonely,’ she told him. Scruff blinked his...
Heidi said, gently but with a firmness that made two other committee members sit up straighter. She paused, then added, almost to herself, ‘When I was small I read Heidi so many times the spine fell off. That little goatherd up in the mountains...
Linda had one shoe on and one shoe off when she spotted the swan through the dressing room window. ‘Tom!’ she shouted, leaning out over the sill. ‘There’s a swan on the croquet lawn and it looks absolutely furious.’ From somewhere below,...
The sat nav voice had been wrong three times before Jenny admitted she was frightened. She’d bought the Renault on a Tuesday, after her car threw a timing belt on the bypass and died in a lay-by smelling of hot oil. The Renault was...
there, tomorrow. You can see for yourself.’ He sighed, but agreed, the way he agreed to most things – as if doing her a favour she didn’t deserve. rrrrr Saturday morning. Grey sky, light rain. Jenny drove the Renault with David in the...