Edinburgh

Story
COVID-19 isn’t the worst.
No, being told you have only months to live, during the COVID-19 pandemic, that’s the worst.
My partner’s flight from America was cancelled. My brother lives on the other side of the country.
I felt I was instructed to view the last few months of life from my living room windows.

I just wanted hugs.

It was later a friend suggested I should hug myself. This seemed incoherent, yet as soon as I did, my body erupted.

… … ...

But then... light.

Hope.

The tumour... just stopped... growing.