I had been holding the hammer too long not to use it.

The urn shattered as I brought the hammer down, and fragments of porcelain exploded amidst a cloud of ash.

Mommy cried something about grandma when she saw it. Daddy just told her to move grandpa up a shelf.

Chris Griglack was born and raised in Massachusetts where he has lived for 23 years. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2012 with a degree in Writing, Rhetoric, and Communications.