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Moonlight Sonata
Moonlight Sonata
*This is a slight edit of my original award-winning story published in Midnight Echo 2013. Ideally to be read while listening to Beethoven…
Tim Hawken
Feb 6, 2015
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Can You See Me In The Shadows? — A Micro Story
Can You See Me In The Shadows? — A Micro Story
But can a parasite burrow into your psyche? Feed off your worst fears? Whisper evil in your ear?
Tim Hawken
Apr 2, 2019
A Partner’s Side To Cancer
A Partner’s Side To Cancer
Just eight months after my partner and I exchanged wedding vows she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. That has meant the “in…
Tim Hawken
Jul 8, 2017
What Is Love?
What Is Love?
A Valentine’s horror story
Tim Hawken
Feb 12, 2017
Cracking The MRI Riddle
Cracking The MRI Riddle
Tara and I were sitting in her oncologist’s office this week for the latest MRI scan results. Looking on the computer screen there didn’t…
Tim Hawken
Dec 1, 2016
Kill, Feed, Grow
Kill, Feed, Grow
Attack from the deep.
Tim Hawken
Oct 30, 2016
A List of Alternative Cancer Therapies
A List of Alternative Cancer Therapies
“You have incurable brain cancer. Right now there is no treatment proven to improve your lifespan.”
Tim Hawken
Oct 11, 2016
The Chemo Chronicles
The Chemo Chronicles
Updates on Tara Hawken’s journey through treatment for brain cancer.
Tim Hawken
Jul 22, 2016
Burn then Poison : A Cancer Treatment
Burn then Poison : A Cancer Treatment
After successful awake brain surgery the biopsy results are in and the doctors’ view unanimous — it’s now time for the burn and poison…
Tim Hawken
Feb 20, 2016
Should We Accept Charity?
Should We Accept Charity?
Recently some close friends organised a charity appeal to help our family through a tough time. My wife Tara’s brain tumour has shown signs…
Tim Hawken
Dec 6, 2015
Awake Brain Surgery
Awake Brain Surgery
On Dec 13th this year my wife Tara will have surgery to resect a tumour in her brain. She’ll be awake during the entire operation. Merry…
Tim Hawken
Dec 2, 2015
Family Interrupted.
Family Interrupted.
In September 2010 my wife Tara was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. I won’t go into crazy detail here about the immediate…
Tim Hawken
Nov 20, 2015
Painful Toddler Erection
Painful Toddler Erection
Painful. Toddler. Erection. Not three words I ever thought I’d Google together. But, there I was at 3am on a weeknight, searching away. My…
Tim Hawken
Oct 30, 2015
Knock, Knock.
Knock, Knock.
I shiver upstairs, hearing my trick-or-treater friends retreat for the night. They dared me to sleep in this house, alone with its midnight…
Tim Hawken
Oct 29, 2015
WTF is Will To Power?
WTF is Will To Power?
There are quite a few philosophical terms you find thrown about when people are pretending to have a serious discussion. Sometimes it can…
Tim Hawken
Feb 26, 2015
The Easter Eggs of Hellbound
The Easter Eggs of Hellbound
Tim Hawken
Apr 15, 2014
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