Meghan Endahl

Begin Again

We watched one another decay. First, our words disappeared from our tongues and then our memories from our minds, one by one. Decaying. No one could remember why it was happening. How had our world gotten to this point, with starving, broken bodies and dying language? The ones who offered the Reward knew. They knew every detail, never lost any words. They said that if one of us found the Reward, then we could be the same. Everything would come back. We wouldn’t be hungry — for food or language — anymore.