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Jennifer Allan-Robertson

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My obsession with Alison Steads: the story of an ex-police officer.

Weekly Contest #267

I think back to meeting Ali on her lunch breaks. She worked in a little cafe which was in the neighboring village to the farm, where she resided with her monsterous husband, Jimmy. I asked her, practically begged her, to leave him but she said she couldn’t, it was too complicated for her to leave and that she refused to leave with nothing. A few weeks of regular lunchtime meetings, comprising of many sandwiches, cakes and coffee, I offered to drive Ali home. She had already confided in me about Jimmy taking her car off her the day before bec...

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My five stages

Weekly Contest #255

CW: This story contains themes or mentions of mental health issues and sex.When I think about the hurt and suffering that I have been through recently, I don’t automatically think I have suffered a loss. It’s not like someone has died. But at the same time there has been a death. The death of trust and the death of my faith in my husband. The death of the woman I was before the infidelity and the death of who I was going to be in the future. In a way, I suppose, there was a death. The death of me. Psychology believes that when we suffer a lo...

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The obsession with Martin Sloan

"You knew from the very beginning that your actions would lead to such dreadful outcomes, yet you still chose to disrespect it and did what you did! How can you be so selfish?" My mum yells at me as she stands at the other side of the breakfast bar. She folds her arms and waits for an explanation. 4 weeks earlier...  Martin Sloan. What can I say about Martin Sloan? Other than that he is super fit and all the girls at school have a crush on him, even though he is in his early forties. Just thenCharlotte and Nikki join me by the gate.&nbs...

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