Chapter 32
GEORGIE AND I OCCUPY his basement laboratory while Suzanne and
an upset Roger elect to hang out upstairs in the living room. The work Georgie
is about to do is not pretty, but then it’s not the least bit unusual for the
medically trained, Vietnam vet and former Moonlight Funeral Home employee. And,
as for me, I grew up with this stuff. Dead bodies were an everyday sight for
me. Some of the bodies that came my dad’s way were gruesome. Car accidents.
Gunshot wounds. Stabbings. Facial mutilations, contusions, and crushings from
head-on collisions.
Once—and I remember this like it happened three minutes
ago—we received a decapitated body that belonged to a construction worker who’d
fallen from a high scaffolding tower and onto a metal fence. Imagine a
nine-year-old boy w
