Everyone Knows You Go Home

by Natalia Sylvester

The cost of living had started to feel like a debt he could never repay. It grew with each breath they took. Not even the air was free.

“When he cries, remember your body used to be his whole world. Cherish the moments he cries for you, but let him go a little more each day.”

Even after her mother and aunts and cousins explained that death is not a sleep, but an awakening,