The Ghost Woods

by C.J. Cooke

‘Life will not be stopped. That’s what the history of the world has taught me. Ruthless, glorious, murderous life.’

‘He’s a few cards short of a deck,

I already know I’m not like them, and it makes me sad that I never seem to be like anyone.

‘Some of us carry our shame in our bodies,’ Morven says. ‘Hidden away, you know, where people can’t see it. Others can’t do that, and sometimes it makes them want to hurt other people.’

We are all experiencing different forms of pain. We are each other’s solutions. We are wary and glad of each other, united in paradox.