Mother's Pride (3)
The third instalment of my new short story, published exclusively on Substack
After Gordon left school, he applied to be a mechanic's apprentice but wasn’t accepted. Doris didn’t mind Gordon being in the house - she liked to keep an eye on him and felt a lot calmer knowing where he was. They’d also grown to become good friends, and Doris enjoyed his company. Thank goodness he was nothing like Len, thought Doris. Len had been such…
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