I'd like to thank all the entrants in our 100 x 100 competition (and Simon Whaley too for doing the judging!)
Congratulations and the prize of £100 goes to Natasha Derczynski.
Keep a look out for the new 100 x 100 competition starting in July. Here is the winning entry:
Our Cycle
First pee of the day, a hot ten second stream. Dizzying fear then a five-minute countdown.
Minute one. Three years before. The diagnosis. Burying myself in him, grieving for hope, then reviving.
Minute two. Swollen with eggs. A needle. My wall, pierced. Pieces of us incubate together.
Three. It hasn’t worked. Loss, all over again. Another cycle, another failure. Grief onto grief. We are young but dark circles form.
Four. One year to recover, return to one another. Then return to the waiting room, resigned, determined, tired but ready.
Five. Hold up the stick. It’s positive.
Oh God.
How sublime.
