La vida

I sit in the village clinic, listening to the floorboards creak click, clack, click, clack as though

The operation had begun with a sudden crack, the lights went out, and darkness swallowed the theater.

Early spring had just settled over the culdesac on the outskirts of Birmingham. Little Emily, a fouryearold

A nighttime call brought my daughter’s voice to me.Late in the evening the phone rang.

A lone, sorrowful mother sat by herself at a wedding, the object of everyones snide jokes, when a sharpdressed

Emma, a lone mother, sat despondent in a corner of a wedding reception, the object of whispered ridicule.

25 June 2025 Today marks the seventh decade of my life, a milestone I never imagined reaching alone.

22April I dropped by Aunt Margarets flat today to hand her some paperwork. We only ever meet at Christmas

I am now 52 and I own nothingno wife, no family, no kids, no job absolutely nothing.My name is Pedro.

Im now 52 and have nothing leftno wife, no family, no children, no job… nothing.My name is Pedro.