Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary - Rebecca Brown
A procedure like nap time I didn’t know I needed to get it into me, doing everything exactly the way they said. My body was not surprised.
Her body already knew as if she already knew. throw them in the wash throw them in the wash always knew the end before.
This was respiration. It began before the end. They said they often died when they were sleeping. She knew before.
It felt like dragging a river. I cleaned out her mouth then gave her a clean, wet cloth to suck on. we totally loved the idea
because it was so horrible it made us understand shutting down, to know of our world less and less, to know we could not understand or go.
She was going without us. You could roll them out easily to where they’d burn our hands and feet on the smooth, flesh-polished wood.