Parker Snider

Aftersome Part 1

Aftersome Prologue The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows describes the word or feeling aftersome as, “Astonished to think back on the bizarre sequence of accidents that brought you to where you are today—as if you’d spent years bouncing down a Plinko pegboard, passing through a million harmless decision points, any one of which might’ve changed everything—which makes your long and winding path feel fated from the start, yet so unlikely as to be virtually impossible.”