So, doctor, what does the MRI show?
You’ve basically lost your knuckles in your thumbs. Texting, gaming. See it more often. Used to be reserved for old men who did typesetting.
How can I have lost my knuckle when it’s …
At 6 p.m., arrivals march through my door. A trumpet dangles from Hal’s shoulder; a wooden recorder balances in Jo’s palm; wind chimes swing from Sandy’s wrist. My adult daughter Elizabeth whispers in my ear. “Mom, I don’t know anybody …
She liked to pretend, on cold nights, that she was in the coffin with him.
She would lie on her back, stiff and straight. Pulling the bedding up close on both sides; bunching it until she felt more like she was …
Everybody else in line is impatient except him.
He just stands there, smiling, behind the ancient lady and her elderly son who reads and re-reads the billboard menu to her, explaining the items as he goes, trying his best to …
I decided that one day I would get up, liberated not just from cancer, but by cancer. I would live out the best possible outcome from this nightmare, and there would only be fantasies made real, only things ticked off …
The breezy cliff top walk came to a sudden end.
Henry Bladon lives in Somerset in the UK and writes all types of fiction. He has a PhD in creative writing and runs a writing support group for people with …
Unemployed.
The word itself is a vacuum, having stolen the last shreds of my identity. At the same time, it was my choice to add this new title to my name.
I didn’t want to wear that label for long, …
We moved into the same office when it was discovered our old building was riddled with asbestos. Every full-time staff member was given their own office, except Mervyn who had to share with me, the part-timer. At the time I …
When I was a child, the church was a holy place. God was real and we worshipped him because he was great. It wasn’t until I was older that I got the notion that religion did more harm than good. …
With a calmness in his voice that is almost soothing, a calmness that collides viciously with the words he is speaking, he tells her that if she want him to stay she will have to get rid of it. And …