Let Her Collect Stamps
ShortStory 848 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Don’t start with the birth certificate. No, take an obituary-out approach. Pick an age, a date, what to do in lieu of flowers. Yes, she must die. I know how hard it is to kill her, but the spell won’t work without it, for every story ends in death. We set the obituary as a frame for a life."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Apex, where the author gets the click.