“She made them for Christmas with the last of her strength, as if feeding us was one more thing death would have to wait for.”
My grandmother died and left me pierogi. Not in a will in the freezer. She made them for Christmas with the last of her strength, as if feeding us was one more thing death would have to wait for. I couldn’t eat them. I couldn’t throw them away. So they remain, between frozen peas and ice, an absurd little inheritance the last thing she made still waiting to be eaten, and me, still not hungry enough to lose her again.

