A Very Personal Note

from my short story collection

Published on September 14, 2008 By stevendedalus In Writing

I was too young for the funeral, but I do remember being in my mom’s arms as she wept for him at the wake in our home. Although I did not experience the same impact his death had on my mom and my older siblings — who had but five years before experienced the death of a baby brother who preceded me— I did have nightmares of the wake; apparently even at the young age of four I was skeptical when told, "Daddy was sleeping." I remember Mom consoling me when I would awake in the middle of the night screaming, "Daddy, Daddy!" from a recurrent nightmare of a black locomotive, my dead father shackled to it, speeding toward me.

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