He thinks it sheepish after all, without religion as he is, to plan to store the ashes of his body in an urn, but he knows too well the smiling piecemeal passing of parts on med school anatomy tables. He will not have his hand in theirs—his science notwithstanding.
Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as 50-Word Stories, The Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Poetry Breakfast, and failbetter.com. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.
Lovely alliteration, “piecemeal passing of parts.” Lynn must have read Mary Roach’s “Stiff.”
First horror story. I like it.
An interesting change of place, you described the environment exactly as it was told to me by a student finding his way around a scalpel.