Elsewhere

by Gabrielle Zevin

for the aged, death isn’t much different than retiring to Florida.

Of course, a wandering mind is not always advisable for the recently deceased and is nearly never advisable for the beginning driver.

“It has always seemed a weakness of an Earth education that children are only taught to communicate with their own species, don’t you think?”

You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.”