The phone glows blue in the middle of the night. Glows through my closed eyelids and prises them open. What now? Why must you wake me? ‘I miss you.’ The text leaves no question. No emoticons. It ends simply withRead more…
Expecting
The kettle is still boiling when they tell me. I am holding a mug with a cartoon of a fat goat, jiggling a peppermint teabag and enjoying a rare moment of glee – post-assignment, lack-of-sleep glee. For a moment IRead more…
Wearing your birthday suit
First Public Appearance You were born naked. Pink and screaming, covered in amniotic juices. The nice midwife and doctor washed your bare skin. They wrapped you up tightly and handed you to your mother. That was your first naked publicRead more…