Tell The Wolves I'm Home

by Carol Rifka Brunt

“No, no. It’s the most unhappy people who want to stay alive, because they think they haven’t done everything they want to do. They think they haven’t had enough time. They feel like they’ve been shortchanged.”

I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.

“Because maybe I don’t want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to remember something about me.