"People talk all sorts of clichés when other folks they know are dying, but it's a whole other thing when it's happening to you. You find out that it's possible, actually, to fit more life into smaller periods of time. That's the only way you can get over the heartbreak of it."
Vincent Yu is the national sales coordinator at W. W. Norton. He graduated from Yale University, where he was a staff member of the Yale Literary Magazine. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Able Muse, the Sierra Nevada Review, and elsewhere. He is represented by the Chris Calhoun Agency.