What We Leave Behind
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Ongoing, First published May 10, 2019
Dennis works as a janitor, but not in the normal sense. He doesn't clean up trash, he cleans up memories, and things left behind when people are no longer there. 

He is good at his job, and enjoys it, but bit by bit things around him start to fall apart. He has a hard time remembering the date. The hour. Even the year. He gets sick more and more often, and the office sends him an assistant, a girl, barely into college, named Allison.

As he trains her and works with her, she seems more and more familiar, even though he knows he's never met her or even seen her. 

Piece by piece his life falls through the cracks. His wife left him years ago and now, he can no longer remember why. What he does and can remember doesn't always match up with what others say happened. 

He worries he might be hallucinating, that the job and the unusual work it requires might, finally, be catching up to him. 

His brain is having more and more trouble filling in the gaps.
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