Skipping along nicely Spring emerging, primroses on the bank, good day at work then odd call (missed) from a fam member just before I finished my Shift Seeing as we always Whattsapp and v occasionally text this direct contact was unusual. Probably making plans to stay at Easter I thought.
“All well?” (Me)
“No actually. All not well”.
Silence. That split second. Freeze and a million ghastly possibilities parade at high speed through the mind.
“What has happened?”
A family member has died unexpectedly in early hours of this morning.
A ghastly shock. He was on a skiing holiday for half term like me this time last week . Tonight in the evening his wife had to tell their very children he is dead. So upshot is as I write this a young man I know well a fam member is lying cold in a hospital morgue. His wife and children miserable at the family home. I am haunted by this. horrified.
Aghast.
The River Files 