Grim

by D.J. Krimmer

Life matters to the living, but cosmically speaking, it’s only significant to the individual. We all go in the end, and the closing curtain drops when your story is told for the last time. So, live a life worth talking about. That’s all you can do.”

How grief wraps around your ribs and squeezes until there’s nothing left of you. How it turns you into a ghost long before you die.” She exhales sharply, her fingers tightening around the book. “I get Poe. I am Poe. A person trapped in the waiting room of her own demise.”