Carry on The ogres you fought and mountain you defeated cast shadows where you tread. Dark shadows, inky with menace, phantoms lurk and all you can see are glinting fangs. You stumble in the gloom fearful, consider sitting on a rock and watching while life skitters onwards See, beyond the shadows where the […]
June 2008 – 20 weeks – 100 words
Trigger warning: pregnancy loss June 2008 – 20 weeks There was sunshine on the day you left spring summersaulting to summer and optimism, but you’d gone and I didn’t know I carried imaginings future selves, with ice cream, on beaches… my motherhood – calmer, stronger, wiser, Not a woman who didn’t know […]