Thursday, February 1 It proved an undesirable coincidence that today, I planned to discuss secrets and their effects on mental health with my psychology students, and today, I was meeting him for the first time. I began my lecture with, “Everyone in this...
It's almost 9:30 when Tara wakes up this Saturday morning. Marc has already been gone for some time, but she notices that he has left an envelope for her on the dining room table. For the young woman, this kind of missive is always a source of anxiety and...
Sixty-six-year-old Ruth Davies's life had changed dramatically in the last three weeks, and it may well continue to change dramatically. The change had been brought about by a chance meeting with a stranger in a cafe in town. The man was no longer a stran...
Ruth Davies often thought back to her marriage. It was now fourteen years since her husband Iwan passed away and Ruth, aged sixty-six, missed him for so many reasons. Their marriage, and indeed Ruth's home life before that, had been built on discipline, w...
Dean Houghton was a twenty-eight-year-old single man, and he was just getting up to get ready for work. Daylight was just starting to appear, although it was still quite dark, and he happened to see what appeared to be a young man leaving the house opposi...
