Apparition & Late Fictions: A Novella And Stories - Plot & Excerpts
He remembered her body, tiny and lifeless and sickeningly still as she lay opened and autopsied on the prep-room table. He could still bring to mind, these many years since, the curl of the knot in the viscera bag the pathologist had tied, with all of her examined organs inside, and the raw edge of the exit wound in her right leg and the horrible precision of the hole in her breast where the man who murdered her put the muzzle of the gun. And he remembered the dull inventory of detail, the hollow in her mother’s voice the morning she called him at the funeral home. “Elena’s been shot, Martin. Up in Baldwin. She’s at the Lake County Morgue. Go and get her, Martin. Bring her home.” ELENA HAD been only fifteen when her father died—the darkly beautiful daughter of a darkly beautiful mother and a man who’d had cancer. He was laid out in an 18-gauge metal casket. The funeral was huge. Martin could remember standing between them, Elena and her widowed mother, when they’d come to see the dead man’s body.
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