It became a habit to cry in the shower after my swimming lessons. My eyes turned red with the stress of chlorine, little tears squeezed from each duct like a swollen lime. My mother never had any mercy. She took me by the hand each time and led me to the edge of an ocean.
You have to learn to swim, Chris. How else will you survive?
Issue 8
WRACK WAKE
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Christopher Tang is a Writing MA student at Warwick University, where he also writes for The Tab and was appointed Editor-in-Chief at The Tab Warwick. Specialising in poetry/non-fiction, he intends to pursue art and entertainment journalism in the future, and later publish a poetry collection.