Summary

Marianne’s landlord upgraded their home, and she began to struggle with the faulty fuse box that was always cutting out. It reminds her of how quickly her mood changes and resurfaces the fear that she will always struggle with mental health like her mother did. This is not the first time she has tried to write down her story, but this is the furthest she has ever gotten. It felt disloyal to her mother to finish the story as if everything she meant to Marianne could fit into written words, but also to leave it half-finished as if she did not care.

At first, Marianne told herself that she was recording her story for Joe so that he would have some memory of his mother. It began to feel cruel to “list all the things he had missed, and all the ways...