What’s wrong with you? my wife asked. The light just seems a bit bright, that’s all.

I had always taken my brain for granted, just as I had taken for granted the agelessness of youth, but now I wondered if my brain was working as it should.

UNIDENTIFIED BRIGHT OBJECT BY JOHN MARTIN 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 34

The way the neurologist explained it to me, this unidentified bright object (UBO for short) that the MRI had found in my brain c…