It took nearly five minutes for her ashes to cool down. Afterwards, someone held out a handful. "Here she is, your Lara. Take her." The agony stuck within me like an iceberg for one thousand days shattered without warning and drowned me in a flood of tears.
A man sits before his wife lying comatose in a refrigerated chamber and tells her the thoughts he had never dared express when she was conscious; When the Gods Left follows Rajula Dip, a carrion-picker, as he goes about his business and himself becomes carrion; in Fragments, a woman takes a bus to her rapists house to speak to him and to...