Story The Largest Act of Disobedience Available to Her
Part five of five. Her brother thinks the label was cowardice. Gwen does not, and she has worked out exactly why.
Family Secrets
Original fiction, clearly labelled. Letters in lofts, results from a test nobody asked for, and the relative who knew all along.
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Story He Had Been Findable for Twenty-Eight Years
Part four of five. The search took five weeks, which was the part Gwen found hardest. He had put his name down in 1997.
Story Mother: Eileen Wardle, Nineteen. Father: Blank.
Part three of five. The small brown envelope had one document in it, and it rearranged everything Gwen knew about her mother.
Story The Fourth Letter Was the One That Did It
Part two of five. Twenty letters from a woman called Joan, mostly about shoes and the weather. And then one paragraph that stopped both of them.
Story The Box Was Labelled Not to Be Opened, in Her Mother’s Handwriting
Part one of five. Gwen was clearing the loft for the house sale. The box had been under the water tank for thirty-one years.