Prentice Orville

**Reckoning for a Joke** Fifteen years together. On the surface, they were an ordinary family from Manchester—Oliver

“Oi, Lesh, maybe skip this trip, yeah? Got a bad feeling about it… Honestly, ask someone

To the Point of Tears… MUM Mum is seventy-three. Small, stooped, her hands always busy, her gaze

“Why do you bother with that girl? She’s not even yours!” This is Larissa’s story—one she

**Lost Love, Found Family** Edward carried a heavy thought for months—he wanted to leave. No shouting

**A Great-Grandmother Who Changed Everything** Emily perched her stuffed bunny on the sofa and wagged

The Wounds of Betrayal Emily was just finishing the washing up when the phone shattered the quiet of

**Family Secrets and a New Home** *— Come visit me in the village with your husband!* Mum urged.

This tale was whispered to me by an old friend named Emily. It unfolded not in some distant land, but

Betrayal in the New Home James and Emily married and moved to a new flat in the outskirts of Manchester.