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Category: Relationships/Family

Realism

There’s No Place Like Home

Thomas Briggs goes back home when he leaves the army. There’s no place like it… but what if you find you don’t belong anymore?

Peter Jordan August 12, 2015

Ghost

The Fairground

Brandon is going to propose to Jennifer at the top of the Ferris wheel.

Dan Forrester August 12, 2015

Realism

Proximity

Gary gets a call that his Dad is dead, but that can't be right… Saturday, he unclogged his toilet.

Dawn Lowe August 5, 2015

Crime/Detective

A Face From The Past

Private dick Alec bumps into an old girlfriend who has a score to settle with the man who framed her husband. He is drafted in to help…

Peter Tickler August 1, 2015

Coming of Age

Dream, Dream, Dream

Always sentimental, Trevor remembers the traumatic end of his first love affair…

John Needham July 31, 2015

Historical

A Call To Eternity

The deadliest sniper is the one with nothing to lose.

Roger Barnes July 29, 2015

Relationships/Family

Winter Wonderland

It's a beautiful winter's day, and a marriage falls apart.

Catherine Edmunds July 16, 2015

Realism

Don’t Crows Eat Corn?

The day after her mother's funeral, Sandy has to hide the bruise on the side of her head

J.P. Bohannon July 15, 2015

Historical

My Children Will Survive

Johnsontown, Guyana 1978. Aggie has to get her children out before Dad incites the comrades to mass murder.

Matthew Emma July 14, 2015

Relationships/Family

Accidental Loss

Divorced, broke and fresh out of rehab, Jimmy goes for a blow-out dinner.

Mary Alexander June 26, 2015

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