Extract from 'I gaze up'

'I brush a strand of sticky hair from his forehead, fanning the fetid air above his flushed cheeks with a folded magazine. His fever appears to have abated, the pulse at the base of his throat seems to be throbbing less frenetically. I place the back of my hand on his neck...' 

Maggie is also a prolific writer and is currently writing her own autobiography.