How to Remember Perfectly
ShortStory 5,020 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Joy catches my eye, shuffles my direction. Her face lights the dining room. Her curly gray hair is the sun’s corona, and she seems to float above her walker, needless of her stiff little legs. In seeming slow motion she arrives at the seat across from me. Eating and conversation have stopped."
Content warnings 2
death-of-a-loved-onesuicide
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.