Funeral for a Friend

When Marcus dies, a town relearns how to grieve together.Nora finds his jacket folded on the pier and becomes the reluctant keeper of his small, exacting life. Her friends-Elias the mechanic who fixes more than hinges, Camille the sister who keeps lists, and Jonah the cousin who knows Marcus beyond the harbor-gather with their own secret loves and private failures. Grief arrives in domestic objects: a carved wooden bird, a pressed daisy, a dented tin. As they build a bench, share soups, and stitch rituals into habit, they must decide whether memory will ossify or keep them living.Can a town make mourning into a practice that heals? Read it now.