As soon as Marie met Sarah after work one day, she couldn’t wait to tell her all about her new relationship with a gorgeous girl she’d met in a book shop. Marie gushed about how Bernadette was just her type, a girly girl, all feminine and pretty. She told Sarah how they’d gone for a drink after meeting at a poetry reading in the local library, and how one thing led to another, and Marie had ended up doing the walk of sham...

“Come on, Ali, you can’t hide in your room for ever.” Alison swept her long blonde hair back from her face and stared up at her flatmates, Debbie and Sarah. “Fine,” she agreed. “I’ll come out for one.” “That’s my girl,” Sarah laughed as she grabbed Alison’s hand and pulled her up from her chair. “You’ve been studying too hard. You need to relax and let go every once in a while.” Alison nodded. Ever since her boyfriend of...

‘This is officially the worst day of my life.’ Charlotte paused and lifted her pale blue eyes from her diary. She looked around her room, Robert Smith staring down at her from every wall. She smiled slightly as the opening bars of ‘Fascination Street’ began to reverberate around the room. Charlotte had not taken the news that her dad had got a new job well. She was pleased until she heard it involved uprooting her from he...