The shock of seeing him again after so many years – nearly three quarters of a century – sent him reeling. Damn him! he thought, he kept his hair! Slipping his teeth back in his mouth, Karl said, “I thought you’d be long dead by now.”
It’s funny how you can be doing the most ordinary things just before your life is turned upside down. She was serving up the salad. When he told her, the tongs dropped from her hand, chipping the edge of her dinner plate.
My parents didn’t notice the change. They were spending more and more hours away from home. While they were gone, I leapt onto tables, clawed at the curtains and chased mice across the basement floor.
More often then not, the dead were still alive to her: his great uncle, his long dead cousin, both of Tony’s parents. Who knew what they whispered to her when no one else could hear.