The Forgotten Island

by David Sodergren

‘Well I’m not mad, thank you. The voices in my head would have told me if I was,’ she said curtly and he laughed and held out his hand.

Life truly is stranger than fiction.

This place was funny. Funny-weird and funny-haha.

Oh hi, guts, he thought. Good to see you again.

From now on, if I ever got out of this, I’m wearing nothing but sports bras and granny pants for the rest of my life.

‘Aye. To being a wee kid. Back when you were allowed to be stupid and silly and not care about anything. Before the reality of adulthood crushes your childhood dreams and you realise you can’t grow up to be an astronaut or a princess or a unicorn.’