Sunroom “What did you say?” Karl guffawed. “That you could have been King? Like you could have been a contender?” He laughed; his belly jiggled. “What?” Jon was in a daze. “This is not your garret, this is not your lecture hall or your bed chamber at the Earl’s castle, this is the Sunroom where … Continue reading Chapter 61 – Banished

“We will all die soon. Some of you, very soon. One or two of you today, maybe. These are not natural deaths.” Jon looked at Karl. “You were the one that told us to go there, to his room.” “Well only after Peter told us about his constipation and after we heard the ruckus,” Karl … Continue reading Chapter 60 – Sunroom

They came out from hiding in their rooms. A new purpose to replace the loneliness, anxiety, the waiting alone. What else was there to do but wait. For several, their mind was past the inevitable, but for most there was still much to be enjoyed and gathered in, especially on days when family came. Jon … Continue reading Chapter 59 – Dust

“There is no power in the soul of a single man; it is all in here, combined, shared,” Harriet said. “Where?” Jon asked. “Soon,” is all she said. “I don’t understand,” Jon said. He sat in the dining hall facing the table with Mrs. Remple and Mrs. Krantz. Harriet sat with the old ladies in … Continue reading Chapter 58 – Harriet

“They’ve taken the tape off the stairwell,” Rudy said. The removal of the yellow tape with the black words ‘Police Line’ was the removal of the last sign that Greta Lundberg had ever been there. Nobody came for Greta Lundberg’s body. No family member came to the service in the little Lodge chapel on the … Continue reading Chapter 57 – After Greta