Her screams echoed in the night. She had forgotten their other purpose. They had all forgotten. *** Six years earlier. Judith Fenwicky tapped on the microphone to bring the meeting to order. With this group of people, she found it particularly hard to stop them from talking so she coughed loudly. The chattering eventually stopped […]
Myrtle McBride sat in her rocking chair on the porch watching the children play in the front yard. She tried to move her old body to rock the new chair back and forth, but she couldn’t get it to budge. “Celia, can you get this gizmo to rock? Push the button or whatever.” Little Celia […]
Sarah stood over the frail body of her comatose son. She had lost her daughter Emily to the sugar sickness two years ago and now it had come for Billy. With Emily they had been in a private room in Toronto General Hospital. They had money then. But that was all gone now. Her husband, […]