“I need you to help me pick up a lady’s leg,†my friend Chip says to me on the phone. “We can take the hearse.†Chip’s family owns the oldest funeral home in town. He and I often run errands for them, but never anything like this. Chip could easily go by himself but I […]
A few bubbles broke the surface of the water, then the body came up. For the past several weeks, the body sat at the bottom, tissue, bones and fluid, denser than the freezing water. As Spring approached and the water warmed, internal decay sped up and created gases inside the body. Finally, on this warm […]