The First New Year Resolutions She'd Ever Written

Jenny wrote the list on the white pad she kept by the ‘phone.

Take up smoking. Twenty per day.
Take up drinking. Spirits. Whisky. Bottle a day?
Harder drugs? Research. Psychedelic?
Meaningless sex.
Travel. See the world. Blow savings.
Overeat. Chocolate.
Break the law once each day.

She studied the list: a catalogue of things she’d never done. She’d led a sin-free life; she’d never even needed to make resolutions before. But the diagnosis changed everything. A year left, the doctors said. Despite all her goodness, a year.
Well. She’d make damn sure it was a year to remember.