I See You've Called in Dead

by John Kenney

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. —Virginia Woolf

“Is there a God?” he asked. “What if there isn’t? What are we to do with that? If it’s just lights-out, eternal darkness, a world that goes on as if you had never existed, disappeared, like an ocean wave over a footprint in the sand.”

‘There are three secrets to a happy life. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.’

“We hold the past in our body,” she said. “It never forgets. But it can learn to let it go.”

One last request. Please, please, please be happy. Try. You’re going to die, you know. Trust me on that one.