I Will Bloom Again
written by: Madeleine Armstrong
@Madeleine_write
December: Two blue lines, finally. We squeeze hands, trade excited smiles.
January: A ruby rush of blood; my precious jewel gone.
February: Green shoots pierce the soil, but to me all is bottomless black.
June: I lie on yellow sand, floating outside my body. Your fingers brush my leg. “Maybe we should try again.” I fall back into myself, a white-hot blur.
September: The sky shades purple into pink; the clouds begin to lift.
November: Our boots crunch through orange leaves. The woods are only dormant; their colours will return. My chest flutters as I take your hand. “I’m ready.”
Madeleine is a journalist covering the pharma industry. She won the Hammond House international short story prize in 2023, and has had stories published by Flash Fiction Magazine and LISP. She lives in south-east London with her husband, son and two cats.
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