“Doctor, how to such certainty can you be so sure the man was dead?”

“His brain was in a jar on a shelf at the morgue.”

“Nonetheless, could he have been alive in any way?”

“It’s possible, counselor, if he is in fact living, he’s practicing law in this courtroom.”

Gary Clifton, forty years a cop, has short fiction pieces published or pending with over 60 online sites.  He has an M.S. from Abilene Christian University.