Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time

by Angela Brown

there was once a part of me that believed I was invincible, that everyone I loved was invincible.

They were like neat little rectangular reminders of the many sunrises and sunsets that still lingered on my horizon line, all the time I still had stretched before me to daydream and procrastinate and list out my life instead of actually living it.

I really want to talk about it anyway.” She cleared

pizzeria and suddenly feel like we were twenty-two again. “I’m

earlier. Before I reached the corner, I saw Suzanne, dressed

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.

we aren’t born with one life, but with two. The life we live before we understand loss, and the one we finally live once we realize that, despite our many efforts, our life will ultimately end.

was fake, and so there was nothing for me to tell