Author: Javier Martínez

**Diary Entry** My cheeks burned and my chest tightened. The noise of laughter, phones held up in the air, customers staringit all blurred into a bitter haze.

And then the paycheck came. £850, all mine. I held the payslip in my hand, almost disbelieving. No explanations needed, no justifying every receipt, no

**After Lucy Bit the Doctor** The moment Lucy sank her teeth into the doctors hand, the hospital room fell into stunned silence. The woman, still lying

**Diary Entry** My daughter and son-in-law died two years agothen one day, my grandchildren shouted, Grandma, look, its Mum and Dad! Emily was on the beach