Everything Is Better Without Her

No, Mom. I’m not going to the funeral

Ryan Frawley
The Memoirist
Published in
7 min readMar 25, 2024

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La Pieta. Stanislav Traykov, Niabot (cut out)Stanislav Traykov, Niabot (cut out), CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

“Occasionally a train sets off along the seafront railway, and on that train there’s me, leaving.” — Italo Calvino, Love Far From Home

I took the train to Banyuls

It was delayed.

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Ryan Frawley
The Memoirist

Novelist. Essayist. Former entomologist. Now a full-time writer exploring travel, art, philosophy, psychology, and science. www.ryanfrawley.com