we wept within the moment that was dividing our life into before and after, whereby the before was forever foreclosed, while the after was spreading out, like an exploding twinkle-star, into a dark universe of...

The late Alan Gregg pointed out that human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor cells within an organism: that man was acting like a cancer on the...

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

This is your war now.’ I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?’Some war,’ he said dismissively. ‘What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer?...

Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by God. He left the clinic in fine spirits. He had no intention of removing...

Please don’t die.

He had carte blanche to eat whatever he wanted. No amount of broccoli and vitamin D kills ten lung tumors and I know not how many brain tumors. Have the tiramisu.

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy