Afterlife

by Marcus Sakey

“There have always been people willing to crush others for their own benefit.” Arthur shrugged. “It’s just more literal here.”

We’re all background characters in someone else’s movie.

disassembling poor thinking with such facility that it made her place at the head of the table self-evident.

“Every moment of true fear is a tiny death. Each moment a person surrenders to it, they lose something they will never recover.

Were they happy? Or were they, like so many people, bothered by tiny gripes and silly frustrations? To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it.

Maybe that’s what love is. Believing in the best version of your partner, so they have the courage to believe it themselves.