Four Weekends and a Funeral

by Ellie Palmer

“It’s more of an energy than a look you go for, like a grumpy intellectual who just emerged disheveled from a cave and has no time for your funny business.”

“Skydiving is ridiculous. Why would I voluntarily participate in a flight’s worst-case scenario? If you’re not exiting a plane on the ground, something’s gone horribly wrong.”

I smile, imagining what it could be like to feel things without judging my every thought.

But you know what was so much more terrifying than owing a debt to the universe? Realizing it’s all random. And that’s the truth, there’s nothing to pay or prove. We’re all just living.”