The bus rocks. I catch my sleepy head before it lolls. There is an insistent buzzing from behind, like a bluebottle, if bluebottles were the size of a safari animal. I imagine it taking up the wheelchair space, crouching iridescent and pulpy, vibrating, goggle-eyed. I can’t bring myself to look.

Anoushka Yeoh is a writer from London and a mother of two. She studied Biomedical Sciences, made an ill-advised segue into the Law and now writes about motherhood, neurodiversity and deafness. She is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London.