The girls were alone in the house. Amy's parents were at work. As soon as they entered, Rachel felt the chill of the air-conditioning on her skin. She... wrapped her towel like a shawl around her shoulders as she followed Amy upstairs. They sat close together on the edge of Amy's bed. Rachel snickered in anticipation as Amy, resting the iPad on her lap, tapped the Photos icon, and thumbnails filled the screen. She watched Amy scroll the tiny images until she found the one she wanted. Amy tapped. He suspected the high number of people trying to find their polling place so they could cast their vote in this historic election was partially to blame. People that until today did not care one way or the other who was making decisions for them suddenly had an opinion and were shocked to discover they did not know where to go to have it heard. The rain was not helping the traffic. It never did. He could not understand why this area seemed to lose its collective mind, not to mention feeble. So, bothour boys were raised without religion.We named him James because that was a family name. I am James and so wasmy father. When he was still alive I was 'Junior' and my son was'Junior's Junior' - JJ. The first born got the name, although in my caseJJ was second. My wife's father died a month before my oldest was born,so he was named Michael. JJ was two years younger.Anyway, as I said, JJ had a spiritual side, and for him it required asearch for God.To the sadness of my wife and. The clerk tells him there is no longer a patient by that name in the hospital. He argued that he had been in her room just the day before and she insisted that they had no patient named Jade Summer.As he hung up the phone he could hear voices as if they were coming from the corner of the room. Voices and equipment sound like from the ER. Then suddenly there was a bright light in his room. He could no longer see anything. The voices got louder and more frantic.From above his head, he hears,.
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