Should You Leave First, I'll Sweep Your Grave — Short Fiction — Kernel, 2025

"Death was supposed to be a private matter." In this story, a woman grieves her late husband while having to perform the labour of his datakeeping—that is, the sorting and verification of all his digital accounts, profiles, and existences. The government asks her, as her next-of-kin, to do this work in memoriam. But as she leafs through his online personas and discretised lives, she begins to wonder: who is she really doing this for, and why? Link coming soon! Illustration by Isabel Li.