God is a cluster of neurons. - Margaret Atwood

If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

I’m sorry there is so much pain in this story. I’m sorry it’s in fragments, like a body caught in crossfire or pulled apart by force. But there is nothing I can do to change it.
I’ve tried to put some of the good things in as well. Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.