Holding Up the Universe

by Jennifer Niven

The world has me panicked. The world did this. Especially the way it gives you people to love and then takes them away.”

“It’s not moving on, Libbs. It’s moving differently. That’s all it is. Different life. Different world. Different rules. We don’t ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.”

We are doing it. This is happening. We are meeting and changing the world, his world and mine.

but it’s only when I’m awake that I think about dying.