Addition introduces us to Grace Lisa Vandenburg. A tragedy at age 8, begins her obsession with numbers; she counts everything. She buys things in 10. She has rigid routine to her life. Her counting obsession can also be debilitating. Her obsession with having 10 bananas at the checkout line...
Grace Lisa Vandenburg is obsessed with numbers and every day she counts everything she does or eats. This includes things like counting her steps everywhere she goes to counting the poppy seeds on her cake that she has at her local cafe which must be precisely cut up into a certain amount of piec...
Not a twinge, exactly. More a weight. A disturbance in the flesh. I feel it as I stretch my arms above my head at the beginning of surya namaskar and again in vriksana. The sole of my foot presses against the mat and the toes are spread, firm but not clenching. I breathe and feel my muscles respo...
He’s holding me and he wants to know. ‘She died and Mother died. They both died horrible deaths and I should have looked after them and it’s all my fault.’ I meet his lovely, crinkly eyes and, although I’m feeling much better, mine fill with tears. He pulls me closer until we are pressed together...
It’s Friday midday and I’ve slept around fifteen hours since Monday night. This morning I left home before dawn to drive for hours. I have already been to the ranger station and filled out the appropriate forms, given them Dr Ella Canfield’s details for a camping permit and a fake emergency conta...