Are You There, God? It's Me. Kevin. by Kevin Keck

Author:Kevin Keck
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781596918306
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

Who knows how our deaths are chosen for us? My grandmother didn’t deserve her slow, wilting fate, but from a distance it seems she was spared the one loss that would have ripped her heart apart. And my grandfather? If his impending departure grieved him in any way, I never saw it. On the first Monday in September he mowed his grass. I stood watching him from the front porch. When I was a child, I would ride on his lap on the lawn mower that now sat in the basement and which would never be fixed. When he came inside, he said to me he hoped it was the last time for the season that he had to mow; it was beginning to wear him out. On Tuesday, he said he felt a little foggy-headed, and he didn’t bother to shave. We were all there on Wednesday. My grandfather had been unconscious most of the morning, and his bed had been pushed up against the window. My uncle was sitting at his bedside when he sat up and began to reach for the blinds as though trying to open them. My uncle did it for him, letting in the last brilliant rays of sun. My uncle said, “Dad, do you want to play some cards?”

My grandfather said, “Yes.” And then he was dead.

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