Laura Besley

Laura Besley is a teacher as well as a writer and she is currently based in Hong Kong. She has been published in several anthologies and online. She writes fiction, non-fiction, book reviews and blogs at Living Loving and Writing

Stories by Laura Besley

Down the Hill

Illustrated by Sayantan Halder

Mrs. Knox pushed the heavy wheelchair up the hill for the third time that day, then stopped, turned it around and released it. She pulled her gloves off both hands, finger by finger, cupped her hands in front of her mouth and blew. Mrs Knox’ hands hadn’t been warm for as long as she could remember. …