1.1 The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han by Maria Dong
ShortStory 5,000 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
For Grant Rutherford, work is both life and legacy — but when he dies a mere week after his wife, what he leaves behind will have metaphysical reverberations he could never have foreseen. Content warnings: Grief, medicalized illness, death of a loved one Copyright © 2021 khōréō magazine. Story by Maria Dong, edited by Rowan Morrison. Audio edition read by June Yoon and produced by Katalina Watt. Maria Dong's (she/her) short fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from Augur, Nightmare,…
Content warnings 3
death-of-a-loved-oneillness-and-pandemicsubstance-use
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