The Brother I Shouldn’t Want
The edges blurred first, the car, the road, the figures, all of it losing shape like it was being pulled away from me piece by piece.
“No,” I said under my breath, but it didn’t matter.
It never did.
The memory slipped away, dissolving until there was nothing left but the darkness again, the water beneath my feet, and the silence pressing in from all sides.
But this time, it didn’t stop there.
Everything began to fade.