Fiction and Drama Ariana Harwicz In the end amnesia does the dirty work Margaux Williamson, Fire and Fence . 2025, oil on canvas. 70 × 84". Photo by Laura Findlay. Courtesy of the artist. W e don’t decide anything over the course of a lifetime, we follow our own lives meekly along signposted paths, half-heartedly trying to catch up, teetering on the edge of the abyss, asking the wrong person for help, hitchhiking along a dangerous highway, fleeing when it would’ve been better to stay, staying by accident. At most we catch up for a few miles, like running a night marathon alongside a cargo train, you can’t ask for much more. We don’t decide anything about our love lives either, the quickening adrenaline, the red-hot lava. The long marriage, the holiday camp romance, incestuous desires, in an old people’s home, an asylum, a palliative care center, in a luxury euthanasia clinic, most use the same words to say the same thing: that you die without the faintest idea.…