Author Archive | Matthew Ward

Keyhole Surgery

The silver-haired doctor in his sixties assured me that when he went in through my chest to operate on my heart that the pain I would feel afterwards would be minimal, due to the state-of-the art advances of so-called ‘keyhole surgery’. Problem was that the ‘keyhole’ he spoke of was actually big enough to fit […]

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The Rivers

Last year I disappeared for two weeks, like Agatha Christie did once upon a time. Agatha and I have a lot in common. We’re both writers — she detective novels, me shopping lists. Also, we both like tea. Anyway, as I said, last year I disappeared for two weeks. Not literally of course — I […]

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