After her mothers funeral, Anna went to the hospital to collect her belongings, when the nurse handed her the clothes of the deceased mother, a note suddenly fell out of the pocket of the robe
The silence of the apartment felt heavy and absolute, the kind of silence that only exists in a home where a primary heartbeat has recently stopped. Anna stood in the center of her mother’s kitchen, the late afternoon sun casting long, amber shadows across the linoleum. It had been five days since the funeral, five … Read more
