pandemic – Cancer in the Time of Covid

Cliffs: Part Two

How the hell am I going to tell my parents? I’d wondered, idly, over the years what I would do if I ever got cancer. I imagined waiting until I had had scan results and knew for sure what was happening, before telling them. I imagined driving to their house and sitting down at theContinue reading “Cliffs: Part Two”

Cliffs

I am standing on a cliff. The sea unrolls before me, an empty beach, an empty sky, a full heart. I stretch upwards and touch the sky and feel gravity’s invitation, a question I don’t wish to answer, easily rebuffed. The water dances with the wind, time-honoured, time-ancient. There is warmth on my back andContinue reading “Cliffs”