Monthly Archives: September 2020

Chapter 50: Isla After many hours of solace and pain, once Simon had arrived, Isla had laboured more easily. Her hand held by a kind and loving man – or at least by a man who was being kind and … Continue reading →

Chapter 49: Dee The days spent in the hospital had proven hugely restorative for Dee.  She had a feeling of purpose that had been absent from her life for as long as she could remember.  She felt that it was her job … Continue reading →

Chapter 48: Isla With each day of her pregnancy, Isla felt a little stronger.  Although she was physically battered and bruised, she felt mentally strong.  She was fighting not for herself, for whom she had little remaining fire, but for the new … Continue reading →

Chapter 47: Dee Whilst Isla and Milly slept, Dee planned.  She had walked into the hospital with her only friend, uncertain what she would find and uncertain too about what the future held for all three of them.  She was no surer … Continue reading →

Chapter 46: Isla Periodically, Isla would open her eyes and surface for a moment.  Each time she did so, she noted that Dee was still sat at Milly’s bedside, holding her hand and that Milly was still there, still clinging on … Continue reading →

Chapter 43: Dee Dee did not know how many hours she had spent at the station but the rush hour had come and gone.  Tired from her sleepless night, she had been dozing when Isla finally arrived, waking with a start … Continue reading →

Chapter 40: Isla Isla opened her eyes and a digital clock on the wall came into focus. 16:02 it proclaimed.  It took her a moment to realise or remember where she was but the clinical smell of the hospital brought her … Continue reading →

Chapter 38: Isla When Isla’s pregnancy test told her that, as she suspected, a tiny life was growing inside her, she cried.  She cried with relief, that finally she had achieved her aim and, once the truth of her ‘accidental pregnancy’ … Continue reading →