Beril’s Reviews > Slanting Towards the Sea > Status Update

“But this is the thing about life-it has a way of continuing. Even past the moment when you wish it wouldn't. Even past the moment when you feel so spent you could just die. You wake up—you, with your primitive physiological needs: your digestion, your breathing, your thirst-and you subsist.
It's almost comical, that way.
I get up, because what else can I do?”