Daughters by Lucy Fricke

Author:Lucy Fricke
Language: deu
Format: epub
Publisher: Voland&Quist
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Dark dots danced like shadows on the ceiling but otherwise the room was completely still. Lying there rigid in the bed, I knew something wasn’t right. Somewhere just after the Italian border, my medication had run out. I’d planned on being back home long ago. Now I was travelling without supplies, a depressive going cold turkey.

I’d been taking a pill every day for the previous two years, slowly increasing the dose until the doctor decided I was ‘perfectly calibrated’. I’d liked how he put it, I liked how he warned me several times that under no circumstances was I to abruptly stop the medication. I was to ‘taper it off ’, he’d said. The same should apply to relationships, I’d thought. People should taper each other off, gradually reducing their doses until they can do without each other entirely.

But now I was stuck in this forlorn corner of Italy without a single tablet. This wasn’t a tapering-off, it was a break-up via text message.

My mouth was full of nails, my saliva tasted metallic, my tongue was numb. Sadness between my teeth, ruining my appetite. It felt as if something inside me had ruptured and was seeping through every pore, leaching into my organs. Maybe it was all the losses I’d experienced. They were getting mixed up, and I could no longer tell where they started and I stopped.

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