This article originally appeared in Writer’s Digest. The eggs were broken. All of them. My mum had given me a dozen from our farm, in a box, to bring into school—I was supposed to give them to another child to give to their parents. But I didn’t know the other child and hadn’t plucked up…
This article original appeared in CrimeReads. Various medical phenomena have shocked, surprised and fascinated us since the dawn of time. From the terrifyingly named Alien Hand Syndrome to alleged accounts of spontaneous human combustion, we are insatiable for stories which slip outside our realm of understanding. We are driven—be it through empathy, morbid curiosity, fear…
This article was originally published in Time Magazine. “It’s vanished,” the sonographer said. He had checked the ultrasound several times and was certain of his assessment. My husband and I craned forward to examine the ghostly shadows on the screen, the black hollows, like eyes, surrounded by swathes of gray. It felt like we were…
