Four Weekends and a Funeral

by Ellie Palmer

You’ll never get what you want if you’re pretending to be someone else.

“Because I was asleep—in this walking, talking, waking coma. And now I’m awake. You woke me up.”

So many emotions want you to just sit and feel them until they go away. Guilt demands action. You have to atone for it. It tells you exactly what it wants from you. Sadness doesn’t do that.