Category
Loss
Absence that keeps changing shape.
8 stories
Doorway Grief
The Porch Light
She can do the whole house.
3 min read
Disenfranchised grief
Not on the List
Daniel found out from Facebook, eleven days late, which is roughly the correct amount of dignity for the situation.
3 min read
Kummerspeck
Eleven Kilos
The German word for it translates as grief bacon, which Hannah found so funny the first time she heard it that she had to put down what she was eating, which was, at the time, a family bag of crisps at eleven at night on a Tuesday in February.
3 min read
Ambiguous loss
The Visiting Hour
The forms are the worst of it, which nobody tells you.
4 min read
Anticipatory grief
The Long Goodbye in Advance
The vet gave them a number and the number was four months.
4 min read
Han
What the House Holds
Grandmother did not tell stories. That was the first thing Jiyoon understood about her, at about six, and the last thing she understood at thirty-four, and everything in between was an attempt to get around it.
4 min read
Mono no aware
The Last Week of the Shop
The lease ended on the thirtieth, and Hana had known since March, and had told almost nobody, because telling people turns a thing into an event and she had wanted the last months to stay ordinary.
4 min read
The Last Normal Day
An Ordinary Thursday
They had chicken.
3 min read