I speak but there is no sound. You cannot see me on the page. We are lost as if we had never been here, as if we never knew one another. I see but there is only blurred illusion from that other place, where the other life, so real, exists and then is gone. I … Continue reading I Speak

Jon’s Room Walden found Jon sitting alone in his room. He was in the old frayed armchair brought from his house; his Snorri book open in his lap. Jon was leaning over the arm, speaking quietly to empty space. He wasn’t aware that Walden stood in the doorway; Jon was in his favorite chair and … Continue reading Chapter 46 – Jon’s Room

Goodbye Mrs. Branbury There was paperwork of course. Updating and closing the patient chart, the certificate of death, a medical examiners report with autopsy findings, sometimes. Nurse Shirley admitted that she had been present, claimed she considered resuscitation but Mrs. Branbury was so old and frail she would have broken, with no good result. She … Continue reading Chpter 45 – Goodbye Mrs Branbury

Mrs. Branbury’s Birthday “What is the secret to your long life?” Jon asked Mrs. Branbury. “Sex,” she said. “The secret is to just keep having sex even if neither of you want to or don't feel like it. Do it anyway.” She looked at the very tall Peter van der Groot and smirked. There is … Continue reading Chapter 44 – Mrs Branbury’s Birthday

A Million Years “Power over our fellow man. It blinds us, consumes us, makes us crazy. If you think about it, it is such an unusual thing, this feeling of being superior to other people.” They came to the Sunroom in greater numbers, like moths drawn to a flame, like bees swarming, hungry to hear … Continue reading Chapter 43 – A Million Years