"He was no longer allowed to drive. He bought a new car anyway, a slick white sedan. We sat in it in..."

“He was no longer allowed to drive. He bought a new car anyway, a slick white sedan. We sat in it in the driveway, opening and closing the electronic windows. He said, “I don’t have long to live, but if I can sit in a car I feel like I’m alive.””

- from ‘A Successful Death’, by Lisa Mitchell in The Lifted Brow #24: The Medicine Issue.