Five times you said yes and meant no.It’s cold outside. That’s the first thing the four year old girl notices when she steps outside of the small Liverpool house. It’s cold for the month of May and she blames it entirely on the business trip her parents are going to have to make. Her birthday is next week. She’ll be five and grown up. Her ( Read more... )

070. TEN kisses.1. Paul McCrimmon: He was my first ‘romantic kiss’. I was four and he was six and we lived next door to each other in Liverpool. He kissed me. And then I kicked him into the mud. Mum didn’t know whether to laugh or scold. Paul did, though: he laughed and, after standing, pushed me in to the mud as revenge ( Read more... )

1. [Canon] "My name is Sarah Jane Lofts and my husband is a successful television journalist. Perhaps you've heard of him ( Read more... )

020. TEN lives you've never lived/could have lived1. [Canon] White picket fences and a kitchen filled with the latest gadgetry. It wasn’t the first time Sarah Jane felt that she was living in an American suburb advertisement and she doubted it would be the last. Longingly, she stared out the window as she waited for the bus to drop off Alice ( Read more... )

How did you lose your virginity?She hadn’t meant to let things escalate this far ( Read more... )

"I never thought I'd say this, but..."“…you see. Oh, Andrew,” Sarah said, a small sob escaping her. She blinked back the round of tears in her eyes that wanted so desperately to escape. She couldn’t cry; she had to be strong. “Andrew, I…I never thought I’d say this, but I can’t marry you ( Read more... )