The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re
not the first to die.

“We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally me…”

“When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no…”

“It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us…”

“It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshi…”