B-side

Heather died recently. People see these things on social media accounts now and I heard about it from other friends. I knew her in high school, though we never spent that much time together. Her father died when we were young and it was unusual to hear something like that then. A group of us were standing in my mother’s driveway discussing it, everyone said something, then I said, I didn’t think any of us knew what we were talking about. I said it nonchalantly, as more the expression of a feeling than a thought. Everyone got quiet and we didn’t say anything else about it.

This work was made in Painesville, OH and Brooklyn, NY.