The alarm screams at her every morning, exactly the same moment every day. Her first thought is like every other. “Oh God, please let this day be over.” The day has barely began and Mary is wishing to fall back asleep. Waking feels like a painful excursion into a nightmare. The children are already screaming for their breakfast, her boss… Read More
Amazing Mountains
Imagine discovering that the child you have just given birth to, the one that has come fresh from your womb after nine tiring months, the one that has just sucked in his first life-giving breath and wailed his first cry has been diagnosed with the life sentence of Cerebral Palsy. Imagine for one moment, the devastation. The shock. The numbness,… Read More
The Dried Up, Cracked,Withered and Ugly Truth.
There is an immense crater, the size of a small lake. Where water once flowed from a nourishing stream into the crystal clear waters of this lake, now the stream is a barren river bed. Dust drifts away at the slightest breeze, deepening the crevice, cracking the ground. Where the lake used to be, the underwater plants have shriveled from the sun’s glare, lying flat against the hard, hot surface of the crater. It smells like death.


