American Nocturne by Schwaeble Hank

Author:Schwaeble, Hank [Schwaeble, Hank]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Cohesion Press
Published: 2016-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

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He knew it was a dream, but that didn’t make it any less real. It was two days before his eleventh birthday, and he was in that room again, that still, noiseless place outfitted like a hospital ward, smelling of decay and Lysol. He was watching his father. There was virtually nothing left of him by that point, a spent cadaver of a man, wraith-like. It was as if his father wouldn’t allow death to claim him all at once, so it instead took him bit by bit each day, leaving so little by the time it was over it was hard for Seth to say exactly when he first considered his father dead. He only knew it was sometime before this. He had been standing at his father’s bedside more and more, but seeing him as alive less and less. He knew long before his mother entered, long before she looked at his father lying there, a quizzical expression settling onto her face, and asked Seth to wait in the living room. A few minutes later she would walk past him to the kitchen, where he would hear her make her quiet phone call. Then she would sit Seth down on the couch and tell him his father had passed on at some point during the night. It was like hearing official election results the day after the concession speech. Seth had not heard his father’s voice in weeks, and had never expected to again. He would cry anyway, like he always did.

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