Woman exhales as she pulls the car into the driveway. Work was horrendous. The one-hour commute across the Monash Freeway was worse. A symphony of stop-start-stay-go-no-further that requires her to ignore the slow build of acid in her gut that in three years’ time the male doctor with the overly technical bedside manner will tell her is gastroesophageal reflux with a side of ulcerative colitis.
PUBLISHED IN PERIL MAGAZINE, EDITION 47 - NO COMPASS, AUGUST 2022