Sidebar of Shame by Martel Maxwell

Sidebar of Shame by Martel Maxwell The following short story was published in Belinda Jones’ Sunlounger, a collection of 44 stories by leading women’s fiction writers.  
There’s always tomorrow

There’s always tomorrow

When I popped in to see a friend this week for coffee while working in Glasgow, another of her pals was there.  She’d made the most delicious lemon drizzle cake and I had two giant slices – the first thing I’d eaten that day and it went downhill from there with...