She was dying for so long, I learned to live with it. Then she died—and I forgot
how to feel.
She faded long before she was actually gone. It lasted forever, then ended in a second.
I still don’t know if I’m grieving or simply remembering how to live.
Kristina Warlen is a literary and speculative writer from Warrensburg, Missouri. Her work explores memory, impermanence, and emotional turning points in both flash and full-length fiction.
