I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.
His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.
What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?
The form is so malleable and can do so many things.
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.
I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.