Diane Foster
Bio
I’m a professional writer, proofreader, and all-round online entrepreneur, UK. I’m married to a rock star who had his long-awaited liver transplant in August 2025.
When not working, you’ll find me with a glass of wine, immersed in poetry.
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The Smile in Court
Everyone expected tears. Instead, she smiled delightedly. Clara Merivale sat in the defendant’s chair like it were a chaise lounge, gloved hands folded, a ribbon perched smartly in her hair. Behind her, the courtroom murmured, eyes blinking in disbelief. The charge was attempted murder—of her husband, no less—and still she smiled, as if amused by the inconvenience.
By Diane Foster8 months ago in Fiction
The Girl Who Pointed
They no longer speak my name aloud in the village, not in the way they once did when the court echoed with my words, when they said I was brave and pure, a child with the clarity of angels. Back then, it rang: "Jennet Device, stand forward. Tell the truth, for the Lord watches and the guilty must not escape judgment." And so I stood. I was nine years old. I stood, I spoke, and I told them everything they wanted to hear. God forgive me, I gave them exactly that.
By Diane Foster8 months ago in History
Things I Dream, Things I Do
They said I’d tried to kill a man in the car park behind the library, sometime after dusk on a Tuesday in March. I was told I’d been found standing over him, my hands trembling, my clothes soaked in something warm and red, my mouth slack and expression blank. There were no witnesses, not really—only security footage that showed me walking into the lot and a man falling seconds later. No weapon. Just force.
By Diane Foster8 months ago in Horror
