Dylan Brethour

Dylan is a freelance journalist, editor and fiction writer. She has bylines in the Guardian and the Independent, with essays in Ploughshares and Litro. Her fiction has appeared in places like Spread the Word’s London Short Story Prize anthology and Berfrois. Dylan also edits the blog Talking Death, which tells stories from the frontlines of death and dying in the UK.

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  • Saint Valentine’s Day

    “It’s the 12th of February,” I say to my mother. “I’m not stupid,” she tells me, “I know what you’re doing.” I have driven all the way from Montreal with gifts of diabetic chocolate warming in the backseat. It is a full three hours to my mother’s house in the country, past miles of dead…