Chapter list: The Eulogy
Chronicling my estranged mother's decline from stage four cancer.
Chapter two: The Hauntings
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I’m writing this from the squishy old sofa in the dining room of my teenage home. It’s the second night of caring for my previously no-contact mother, just gone half ten. She’s been asleep for a little while – every time I pass the living room, I peek at the slip of space between the door and frame to squint into absolute darkness.
Chapter Three: The Exorcism
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It was 4am when she started calling for me. I heard her in my dream first.
Chapter five: Jack the Lad
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My mother had one radiotherapy treatment a few weeks ago, localised at the considerable tumour in her lower back. Since the cancer is so advanced, and she’s been unhealthy for years, doctors denied additional treatment under the assertion that it would kill her.
CHAPTER SIX COMING SOON