I'm afraid
I’m afraid of oncoming trains and that feeling right before a train approaches and the wind is all around you, when you have no choice but t...
I’m afraid of oncoming trains and that feeling right before a train approaches and the wind is all around you, when you have no choice but t...
He has just gone in. I am on a chair just outside. The nurse promised to hold his hand. They do it in the theatre but I expect he will be se...
Sudan doesn’t know how precious he is, his eye a sad black dot in his wrinkled face his head a marvellous thing, a majestic rectangle of str...
My mum doesn’t know who I am. Sometimes I’m her sister. Sometimes I’m her dead mother. Once I was Shirley Bassey, which made for an interest...
A bead of sweat rolls down my face; I am struck by the silence. The air is hushed and filled with concentration. On the banks of the Lakshya...
One of life's greatest certainties is that the ground is solid beneath one's feet so the sudden appearance of chasms, however small,...
There's something in me that wants to make everything funny. I do find life very strange by and large, and how we behave even more so. I...
I find myself here with a baby with delicate bones, fine features and blue eyes, who – especially asleep, when she's at her most beautif...
I had had a very minor stroke and the first drawing afterwards took me two days to do (the days are a lot shorter in November). The stroke ...