Each of us dies twice, they say.

Once when you draw your last breath, once when your name is spoken for the last time.

Ever since I heard that, I walk through graveyards just to read the names.

One day, their name will never be spoken again.

But not today.

Nathaniel Mellor is a short story writer and poet who lives in Southern Italy with his partner. He has work published or forthcoming in Willawaw Journal, Second Chance Lit, MASKS!, Six Sentences, Birdseed, Moria, among others. He is the current fiction editor at Pigeon Review. You can find him on Twitter at @MellorNathaniel.