Year after year, the mourning doves show up to try again. I’m willing to try too.
Leise Hook is a cartoonist and illustrator based in New York. Her work has appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, and more. She is currently working on a graphic memoir-in-essays for Holt.
If my grandfather could remain optimistic into his eighties, then how could I let myself become jaded in my twenties?
“I’m much happier in other, imaginary worlds.”
Though she lives, some part of Korra—the flame throwing hothead, insistent on taking up space—does not survive.