Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.