She Gave Birth Alone but Moments Later the Doctor Saw Something That Made Him Break Down

her shoulder, a small fist curled near his own face.

“I don’t deserve to be here,” Emilio said.

“No,” Clara said. “You don’t.”

She said it without cruelty. She said it because it was simply true, and because the truth, even when it costs something in the saying, was the only foundation she had found worth trying to build anything on.

The silence between continue reading …