I Came Home From Work and Found My Baby in a Condition I Will Never Forget – The Archivist

that has been left open for years.

What arrived was closer to nothing than I expected. Not emptiness but not fullness either. Simply the fact of his absence from the world now added to the long fact of his presence in it.

“Closure didn’t come from this,” I said. “Closure came from the morning you read that folder and believed what was in it. From the continue reading …