Ghosts constantly visit me, whispering to me about the past.
Family members who have passed on. Friends who have fallen out of touch. Former lovers who haven’t called in years.
Worst of all is the ghost of the man I should have become. He torments me with every waking breath.
A recovering lawyer, Liam MacDonald is constantly pestered by the ghosts of stories he intends to write. At least this one will stop whispering to him now.
My cellphone buzzed unnaturally loud in the quiet cabin, making several boys stir. Grasping blindly, I muted it and held my breath until the room slowly returned to silence.
The next three hours crawled until reveille, when I could finally return my mother’s call and confirm my father had died.
A recovering lawyer, Liam MacDonald has written for decades. He finds some stories easier than others.
“Tell me again, Daddy.”
“Again?”
“Yes, please.”
“Well, my precious child, you need to grow up healthy and live a long, wonderful life. Because I love you so much that if anything ever happens to you, it will completely break me!”
“And then what?”
“Then… I will destroy the world.”
Rising like a phoenix from the ashes of his legal career, Liam MacDonald set forth to atone for decades of drafting countless legalese-ridden documents. He wonders whether the barest remaining mote of his soul can be saved.