Telling Stories to the Night

Amber light seeps into the dark, softening the edges of the things in the care home —chair, curtain, glass of water—until  everything becomes mere smudges of shadows. I take up my pen, as I often do at this hour, to write. Habit, almost: to trawl the day for small truths, to catch brief scraps ofContinue reading “Telling Stories to the Night”