Remains

"Remains" is a literary essay on obsession, attachment, and loss. Through a sequence of autobiographical vignettes—from childhood fascinations with fishing and rust to adult reflections on love and compulsion—it examines the mechanisms of fixation and release. The piece fuses memoir with philosophical reflection, drawing on writers such as Bergson, James, and Jankélévitch to explore how obsession oscillates between pathology and meaning-making. Written in a lucid, essayistic mode characteristic of contemporary creative nonfiction, Remains treats memory itself as an obsessive return, asking what it means to persist with what has already gone.