For Grant Rutherford, work is both life and legacy — but when he dies a mere week after his wife, what he leaves behind will have metaphysical reverberations he could never have foreseen.

Copyright khōréō magazine 2021. Story by Maria Dong, edited by Rowan Morrison. Audio edition read by June Yoon and produced by Katalina Watt.

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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported CC BY 3.0