Seasons, senses & self: Day 28
I started a new job in the big city that year. Had to catch a bus from the edge of town to the station, then jump on a train.
Another angle
The Rise and Fall of …
Seasons, senses & self: Day 20
Life. You’re born. You learn stuff. Loving, crawling, walking, talking. Climbing, skipping, catching, counting, turn-taking.
The winning sperm
Son The winning sperm headbutts the egg’s membrane and penetrates. They melt into each other. The chromosomes pair off. The new cell doubles and quadruples, again and again. A hollow ball of cells starts to colonise the endometrium: the placenta channels nutrients and oxygen, immune defences. Neural tube. A spine. A human fish, with a … Read more