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‘Pathos is suffering. But is it suffering to realize a dream, however puny?’ New fiction by Caoilinn Hughes.

Bitter Tennis

‘I don’t know much about the cosmos, but I know enough to avoid the game of tennis.’

‘I put the breast milk in the fridge and lie down on the bed. I pretend I am dead, underneath the earth with a bag of Cheetos.’

‘Sharing her pain with other people meant that her pain belonged to her less, Joanne belonged to her less.’

‘My father no longer goes to the hospital to work, because you don’t find nurses in wheelchairs working in hospitals.’