The base of the urn stamps a period into the earth, marking the end of her sentence – four years of nausea, pain, despair and fury breaking to a full stop meanwhile her husband’s grief thunders on, defying grammatical rules and overleaping the strict word limit to hurl itself into the…

Joanna Norland dedicates this story to the intrepid author, Jennifer Steil (1968-2026), who kept writing to the very end.