Thanks to Luke and Jon for comments on It Is Important To Mourn The Loss Of The Dead. The revised version, submitted to the UC National Short Story Competition, is here.
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Had he read Democritus, he might have discovered, in philosophy's first collection of ethical precepts, among portents of atheism, and the vision of his own soul composed of round, smooth, especially mobile atoms, that it is the unexpected which occurs.
—William Gaddis, The Recognitions