On his way to his date with Marianne, Steve drives past the wreckage of a car crash. He was more irritated than anything else because the hold up and detour were going to make him late.

He needn't have worried. The evening turned out to be very special and neither of them expected to feel the way they did about eachother.

However, everything was shattered the following day when Steve wakes up to an empty bed and to breaking news that the woman killed in a horrific car accident was named as Marianne Wisdom.

How could that be?

Its Christmas Eve and an elderly man is at home putting the lights on the Christmas tree while his wife does last minute shopping.

The open fire is comforting and casts light throughout the room, reflecting in the window pane. A storm is brewing, or is it?

A delightful story that lets us have a peek inside the thoughts of a man, left with a simple task, but overshadowed by an active imagination.

This story is based on fond memories of my Grandmother when I was about 7 years of age. I would stay a weekend with her in her old shack. I will always remember my Grandmother with great respect.

In towns and city's everywhere, sit nosey pigeons. They watch the comings and goings of the regulars and often are the first to know what's going on in the neighborhood.

A different piece of writing for me, something light hearted and easy to digest:}

Who would think, that in the process of buying an ice-cream from your favorite Mr. Softy van, you could be contributing to the kidnap and torture of the nice man who asks if you would like sprinkles on that?

As you are about to hear, trading on someone's else's patch can have devastating repercussions.

A young girl goes to her parents for a two week visit, but things take a very unexpected turn and a horrific incident means her visit lasts longer than planned.

A terrible scenario, captured sensitively in this piece.

On a run of the mill, mundane shopping trip with husband Derek, Jenny has an encounter with a stranger.

This one hour, talking with a stranger who is interested in what she is saying, who is treating her as an individual with a point of view, someone who really does have something to say, is life changing for her.

She feels ready to face up to the fact that her relationship with her husband is unfulfilling.

She feels a nobody, ignored, taken for granted.

Not anymore, she decides to take action once and for all.

Frank Sonderborg recounts a true story of spending a year in a Forest Kindergarten in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The events sparked an arms race.