Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time

by Angela Brown

“Reality is a construct. We all believe what we want.”

Will we just drown in our white wine / all of us / victims of these unremarkable suburban lives?

That was the thing I was learning about death. Once you acknowledged that it was coming, you didn’t have time to feel afraid anymore.

But in the end, you begin to learn that, despite our many differences, we’re all the same.

In the end, it was not nearly long enough. Nothing ever is.