I Read Stories: She's Still Here by June Martin

 

She’s Still Here by June Martin in Cleaver

Everyone knew Jennifer would die young. She had that aura around her. Now at her fifty-fifth birthday party she still seems like that. And all the people in her life, all of them who were drawn to her knowing it would a short and tragic relationship, they’re all here. Including her husband of twenty five years, still with her.

They’re still anticipating, still expecting her to die. In fact it’s something of a point of contention. And everyone remembers all the times she might have died, all the near misses. And so they miss what’s going on with her right now, still here.

Read This: For Jennifer’s life and the many deaths she missed
Don’t Read This: How exactly does everyone think she’s doomed to die?