The Trailer
THE WORST thing about being dead is the pain. I felt like I was being crushed inside for months after the heart attack. Like I was forever frozen in that moment of death.
The kids tried to help ease it before Tyler, my wife – my ex-wife now, I guess – took them away with her. Samantha, my daughter, told me the pain meant my heart was broken. She said it would feel better if I came home again. Jesse, my son, said maybe being dead is like when you scrape your knee or elbow. You get a scab for a while but then the pain goes away.
Tyler wouldn’t talk to me after I died. She wouldn’t even see me. She changed the locks after she kicked me out. I tried to come back to visit the kids, but she wouldn’t let me in. I had to talk to them through the door, or on the phone. Samantha said
