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I have had a positional headache for two months

Kathryn Maris

I’ve had a positional headache for two months &
a brain tumour is suspected so I will have an MRI.
I feel I have been killing myself, though the truth lies
in-between. As drinking is the one thing that
predictably exacerbates my headaches, I stopped.
Sometimes when I have binge-drunk, the pressure
at the top of my head is so great I have hallucinated,
like the time I thought Pascale had taken over my body.
These “glitch” moments are worrisome, like my certainty
there was a mirror in the kitchen (there never was) and
doors that were once on my right are now on my left.

Contacts: Emily Wallis Hughes and Jason Zuzga at fence.fencebooks@gmail.com