Passion In James County XIX: Family Affairs Chapter twenty-two The day after the plane crash, Matt's Uncle Ezra and Aunt Serena arrived from Seattle to take care of him and help with the funeral arrangements. Because his parents were killed in a plane crash, there was a delay before the wake and funeral could take place but, finally, the ceremonies were he...
Passion in James County XIV: A Week In The Mountains Chapter twenty-nine Frankie and Kay didn't go back to Jamestown until the day of the wake. After they got there, they took showers, changed, and went to the funeral home. They talked to the funeral director on the phone and had decided that the caskets should be closed. When they arrived at the funeral...
I see dead people. An odd phenomenon is happening now that I'm getting older. Suddenly, I know more dead people than I do living people, a not so subtle reminder of what's in store for me, later than sooner, I hope. It occurred to me when an old friend from high school suddenly died of a heart attack the other day. It hit home because he was my age. He coul...
Chapter 4 Walk Like a Man "Hey, Shane, come on in and sit down," Carol Beringer said, looking up from a thick file on her desk. She moved the half-lens reading glasses that had been perched low on her nose to the top of her gray head. "Guess what's come back?" "My test scores," Shane said, closing the door and moving to slouch in the chair in front of...
It had been a few months since I had written anything substantial for anything besides work. I wrote an article for the newsletter about death planning and such.but it had been a long time since I wrote anything for the places I usually write for. This was due to a few reasons.greatest of which was the loss of my father. Normally...you hear about how death i...
CAUTION: This is a story about Necrophilia. If you get grossed out easily, you probably shouldn't read this. It's a story about something pretty disgusting, even to me. * Nathan Manning was distraught. Carmen, his beautiful and beloved young wife, had slipped in the bathtub, struck her head and drowned, and he and everybody in her large family already mis...
Sarah Shelton had lived more than half her life with all the needs of her husband Samuel uppermost in her mind. Running a distant second were her music students including Phillipa's niece, Su-Ann. Phillipa was a childhood friend of Sarah's. Through a series of coincidences, the two old friends had re-acquainted, and gradually as Su-Ann began to make her wa...
Nia rushed to Thomas Jefferson Hospital as fast as she could in the middle of the night. The hospital's waiting room was nearly empty when the smell of sanitation hit her nose, snapping her out of her trance. When she reached the nurse's station, she was nearly choking with tears. "I-I need to see my father, Reginald Harris," Nia said with a shaky voice. T...
Kevyn was physically and emotionally drained. It occurred to her that two things happened that night, when her mother died a life ended but when she finally publicly acknowledged what Patrick was to her, a life had begun, theirs; but she was much too tired and sad to think beyond that thought, there was still the funeral to plan and to get through. As soon...
Myrna likes to bang dead guys. I'd learned to live with that. So, my now ex-girlfriend who lives over a funeral home prefers the rigid dicks of guys who benefit from rigor mortis. I once was man enough to admit when I was beat. I mean, how could any living, breathing guy possibly compete with a fellow with an eternal hard-on? Hell, I used to get flaccid just...