60.5. "Loneliness is just about the scariest thing out there" - Joss Whedon (from Week 23)

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[Follows THIS]Ali didn't wake up quickly. Andrew watched her as she roused gradually, almost as if she was fighting off regaining consciousness. He rubbed her hand softly, trying to give her something to focus on so she wasn't spooked waking ( Read more... )

54.5. Mommy issues (from Week 1)

[Follows THIS and THIS]After lunch, Ali agreed to Izzy’s gentle coaxing to come back to her apartment to watch a DVD as some form of random distraction. Ali made it about a third the way through the film before she knew she had to go home. She couldn’t concentrate on the movie and it wasn’t fair she was ( Read more... )

37.5. Photograph (from Week 29)

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[Follows THIS]Despite Marc’s insistence he should raise the subject with Ali, Andrew hadn’t found the right time. Or maybe he was just scared what she would tell him? He paced slowly back and forth in front of the large balcony windows of Ali’s apartment, the Upper East Side night time his back ( Read more... )

35.5. Can you handle it? (From Week 30)

[Follows a few days after THIS]Ali didn’t know what was wrong with her. It was one of those rare times Jamie wasn’t crying and seemed content to lie in the bassinette and be the adorable baby she was, oblivious to the fact that sitting a few paces away curled up in a sobbing ball at the base of the sofa was ( Read more... )

27.4. The alphabetBlues, pinks, pastels, bright colours, colours in between, rainbow, white, off-white, bunnies, duckies, horses, fish, cars, dolls, cats, dogs, aeroplanes, frogs, unicorns, stars, suns, cribs, diaper bags, rocking chairs, changing tables, linen, prams, mobiles, toys, baby monitors ( Read more... )

23.3. "Loneliness is just about the scariest thing out there" - Joss Whedon

[Follows THIS]It was strange how volatile the world was when it could all come crashing down around you in the blink of an eye. Could you have stopped it? What if you had done one tiny little thing different, would it have changed anything? Would it get better? Would the ( Read more... )

14.2. Curious

[Follows THIS]Ali winced as the radiographer squirted the lube-like substance on her stomach. It was bloody cold and with a bladder full of half the New York water supply to ‘aid the ultrasound waves’, she wanted to grab the strange looking wand and give the woman a firm whack with it. First this blast of coldness and then she was ( Read more... )

10.2. Cake photo - “Sorry. I’m stupid”

[Co-written with agentcampbell]Ali paused at the ward reception desk on her path to James’ room and took a bracing few breaths. She couldn’t believe the nerves she was feeling over facing him. It wasn’t right. They’d known each other for too long for shit like that. It was serving to triple any nausea she would feel on ( Read more... )

7.4 Don’t panicAli thought that reading that positive pregnancy test had been one of the worst moments of her life. That almost seemed like a dance through a field of daisies compared to this. One minute things we fine and the next everything had come crashing down around her and now she’d lost both of her best friends. It was karma. It was ( Read more... )

3.1 Who do you blame for your issues?

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When she opened her front door and found Mark Campbell standing there, she wanted to thump him in the face. The only thing was, what should she thump him for first? The fact he dumped her for not being ready for marriage? The fact he married to Fake Boobs? The fact they slept ( Read more... )