Site hosted by Angelfire.com: Build your free website today!

Remember Me 2: The Return Excerpts

A Vision

Floating downstream in a boat on a river, you can see only a little way in front of you, a little way behind, the nearby shores, and if you're lucky and the river isn't lined with trees, maybe a far-off field or house. But if you go up in a plane and look down at the river, you can see the entire course of the waterway. You can see where it began, and you know where it will end. In a sense, the aerial view is like being given a vision of the future, at least as far as the life of the river is concerned.

Death is a vision that never dies. I am supposed to be dead but I experience the entirety of my life as if it were all happening at once. I float above the river of personality that was once Shari Ann Cooper. I know her, I am her, but I am something else now as well, something blissful. Even as I poke into the dark corners of my life, my joy does not leave me. It is separate from personalities and events. My joy is what I am and has no name.

Chapter One Excerpt

Jean Rodrigues did not want to become her mother. A not quite forty-year-old woman with five kids, a dead husband lost to booze, working sixty hours a week at a coffee shop just to pay the rent on a rundown house in the wrong part of town and to put food in the mouths of children who could not have cared less about her. Most of the time Jean couldn't give a damn, not about school or work or even about herself. Yet sometimes she'd watch her mother as the woman got dressed for work, the lines of ruined dreams on her weary face, and Jean would feel sorry for her. She'd think, There must be something that would make my mother smile. There must be more to life than what I see waiting for me. Yet Jean could never see that "more," and so she seldom smiled herself. ---from Remember Me 2: The Return by Christopher Pike © 1994

Remember Me 2: The Return on Amazon
Remember Me 2: The Return
The Series
Home