Single files - Elle Saunders

I should have screamed. I should have thrown my phone at her or slammed the door in her face but for some reason I feel calm. She just stands there looking at me, her mouth open. 'Yes you bitch,' I think cruelly, 'I've worked you out.' “You’d better come in.”...

Having called in sick to work for the past week I realise I have got to face the music. “I can’t find my bloody keys.” Lyds us standing in the doorway to our living room drinking a cup of tea as she watches me tip my handbag upside down and empty out its entire contents: letters...

I wake up an hour later on the bathroom floor. Like a zombie I walk back into the room and see Ray lying on my bed passed out. My body aches from tiredness and my mind hurts so much I cannot even think. Slowly I climb into bed next to Ray and let my eyes close. The click of the hotel door wakes me...

“Elle, really…you look incredible.” He steps back slightly and shakes his head in an appreciative way and running his fingers through his hair. He’s still wearing the watch I bought him for his birthday last year, I notice. “Why are you here Ray?” I ask,...