paper boxes are not
for shipping dead bodies
This is a short collection of vignettes that I've written over the course of 6 months or so, beginning the day after my mother passed away. I wrote some pieces on the plane ride to and from Guadalajara, the city she died from a heart attack. I wrote some pieces late at night after 8 hours at work, barely able to think of anything except for her. I wrote some pieces among friends and some pieces alone and barely holding back tears. I wrote some pieces based on quick notes I took on my phone when flashes of memories came back to me.
I wrote, because I don't want her to be forgotten.
This collection is a way I've been working through my grief, and for that reason, I don't think this story will ever be finished, but this is what I've got. Hopefully, this blog will be a sort of sequel to what I've already written.
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