Laura is a writer who likes to sit writing in a coffee shop to stimulate her creativity. One stormy day she meets her guardian angel who has come to help her.

A Change of Heart

In the end it didn’t matter if she didn’t write today. Laura held the delete key down on her computer, wiping the words on her screen away—a clear page, until all that remained was the flashing cursor waiting again, like an anxious scribe waiting to fill a new sheet. The action represented her life, she thought, a clean slate—back to a default position.

The torrential rain streamed down the windows. Laura was sitting in the warmth of a deserted coffee shop at a table by the steamy window, looking out towards the sea wall. Every so often the angry, stormy sea sent a big wave splashing over it, as a reminder of its mood. ‘That should reflect my state,’ she thought, ‘but I feel nothing.’

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Recently widowed Helen decides to take her first holiday alone at a particularly friendly resort she had visited often with her husband. While coming to terms with being alone and laying ghosts of the past to rest, she meets her future.

Came as ‘Me’ and Left as ‘We’

Helen had returned to the resort keeping a promise she and her husband had made to themselves a few years ago. She didn’t think she would want to go because she knew memories and ghosts would be waiting there for her, but it was friendly and familiar and she figured a person staying alone would soon start chatting with other guests and with long-term staff members.

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Peter regretted being a bit nonchalant about snowy weather when taking his normal commuting route home across Dartmoor, where a girl helps him to safety.

The Girl in the Red Coat

Peter was not unduly worried about his commute home and figured that it would be no more difficult than it had been for the previous couple of weeks. There had been unusual snowy, icy, arctic-like weather for the last couple of weeks. Snow fell then froze, but once cleared and gritted the roads were passable, even the commuter route through the high moor of south Dartmoor.

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