CLUSTER by Katherine Plumhoff


Perennial fave Plumhoff writes about Laura who just lost her mother:

People say they see their dead moms in blue jays and buttercups, robins and rhododendrons, but mine told me she’d never come back as something so abominably dull, and to keep an eye out for spiders.

It’s a bit Tim Burton, and it’s lovely.

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