As it did, as it always would, the copper haze of a Septembers’ morning made him think of her. Against all wishes, he had woken just before dawn. The velvet darkness of night was beginning to flirt with shades of fiery hazel. Sunlight, cast like shards of silk, gently fumigated around the four bare walls … Continue reading Early Autumn →

9:00pm beckons the habitual trawl through social media. It seems a standard day at the office in my digi-sphere; photo’s of dogs, the Italian peninsula, and attractive people. I count myself lucky to have been physically close to all three at some point, however, unlucky to have only been emotionally close to one; and since … Continue reading Life Inside a Broken Finger →

I could see the panic peaking through the GP's wire-rimmed glasses. Med school hadn't written a playbook for this kinda shit. Benevolently retreating from his keyboard he exhaled, "Any thoughts of Suicide?" I paused, his unintentional ambivalence to the complexity of question had thrown me. This is a two-box kind of answer for him I thought. "No...." … Continue reading Tight Shirts, Lance Armstrong & Anti-Depressants →