Retribution

by Nicholas Gill

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  Alan Evans sat in his wheelchair lost in thought, a feeling of suppressed excitement deep inside himself. There was feeling in his legs; he had made his toes move. All the effort and all the agony of the last months at the special spinal injuries unit had been worthwhile. The therapists had given him a gleam of hope and now he had to persevere, work, work, work and work some more.

  ‘Now it’s up to you,’ they’d told him.

  He’d taken a deep breath and made the decision; he would do it – he would walk again – and run, and jump, and shout for joy! As he sat in his wheelchair waiting to check in he thought that above all he would never take anything for granted again, he determined to live life to the full from now on, every moment of it in all its diversity.