Something Rising (Light And Swift) (2003) - Plot & Excerpts
She remembered these hours after Poppy’s death, too, the way her mind struggled against the information and wouldn’t let her sleep; the strange doubling of consciousness that lasted for months. She might be driving or measuring a piece of hardwood for flooring, and she would be driving but also telling herself that Poppy was gone. Pulling the tape measure out, marking the board, measuring it again, Poppy is gone, until he was in every gesture and every breath. There seemed to be no other way to allow him to die. Laura would have said that at two in the morning the soul was less moored to the body than at any other time, and could fly free, and Cassie felt that, too, the vague awareness of a door not yet open. But a door that could be opened. And staying or going was the question at hand. On the table were Laura’s journals, a stack of letters bound with a bright blue ribbon, scraps of paper torn from envelopes and message pads. The yellow lined notebook in which Cassie and Belle and Laura had been leaving messages for one another.
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