Victim by Gary Kinder

Author:Gary Kinder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 1982-03-02T05:00:00+00:00

Although the family had requested that donations in Carol’s name be sent to the McKay-Dee Foundation or the St. Benedict’s Building Fund, over a hundred floral arrangements—pink and white carnations; red, yellow, and orange gladioli; lavender chrysanthemums; daisies; blue irises; large yellow spider mums—filled the room that Friday evening where Byron, Gary, Brett, and Claire stood in a line next to the now closed mahogany casket. The crowds that came to view Carol grew so quickly that the chapel filled, and soon, as people entered the mortuary, instead of standing in line they were seated in the next available pew, where they waited to be called forward one row at a time. Many of them waited an hour and a half to be allowed a few moments to express their sympathy to the Naisbitt family. When the Register of Friends and Family was finally closed, it bore the names of nearly thirteen hundred people.

As each of the mourners passed by the closed casket to speak quietly for a moment with the family—“Such an unnecessary loss,” many of them said—the family reassured them that they were holding up fine, that a lot of their grief perhaps had been transferred to hope for Cortney. Their thoughts and feelings, their energies, now were being directed toward him. Claire was standing next to her father as the people passed slowly by, grasping her hand, kissing her cheek, many of them crying. The people and the words blurred in her mind. As she was standing there, something her father had said while they were making arrangements for the funeral came back to her.

“I hope we’re not doing this again next week.”

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