My Mother's Eyes: A Short Story

This is such a beautiful and poignant piece. I actually read this at work on a slow day and it really just truly entirely enveloped me. I got interrupted once and I was really shocked to still be at work, I was so fully absorbed. 

The author has such a way of making a small amount of pages hit home on every one of them. I really feel like this short had a way of mixing genres that felt like an in-between to The House Plant and Petrified Women (also by this author and 100% worth reading), in the sense that from Jordie's perspective the experience of the hospital is both a lesson in grief and also terrifying. Many points in this felt like a drama, or a lesson in love and family. While others, those that are the ways he feels in the hospital itself, feel like reading horror in the way they are described and felt through his experience with it. Not to mention that suicide in general, as well as a death of a parent, or grief in general, are horrifying, destroying things to live through. 

Absolutely worth your time.