The Life Experiment

by Jess Kitching

Truthfully, part of the reason Layla hated coming home was because it forced her to see people who had once been integral to her life look at her as though she were a stranger. It felt like there was an invisible barrier around her that said, ‘You’re not one of us anymore.’

We all know sadness here. We know loss. That’s why we come – so that the living know to remember, and the dying know we won’t forget.’