Sixty grams of blighted wheat. Twenty grams of licorice. Ten dried dates. One longan. Four rose buds, and a few Goji berries.

A note I found tucked in the very back of Ma’s bottom drawer two weeks after her death, three years after Pa’s. A Chinese herbal prescription for heartbreak.

Jinjia Grace Hu was born in Nanjing, China, and lives in New York with her cat, Almond. She is an MFA candidate in creative writing at Columbia University. Her stories appear or are forthcoming in The First Line, The Bloomin’ Onion, Bright Flash Literary Review, and elsewhere.