The reluctant mourner 2

My latest novel 'The Long Runners' is a complex blend of crime, thriller, and dystopian themes.

To smooth the path to the afterlife it’s good to hedge your bets.

A Buddhist monk, a priest, a vicar, an officiant, and a celebrant waited in turn at a woodworm-riddled podium to speak warmly of someone they had never met.

Generalities transform the air.

As they drone, he hisses like steam and ponders, how someone can seem, and be, quite different with one person than with another.

When we meet someone for the first time, we are meeting their representative.

It takes a lifetime to unravel the mysteries of life, the various lives contained within a life.

They will never know her true feelings, her roughness of tongue, nor her teeth marks on his forearm.

Imperfect love must not be condemned or rejected.

Critical or scholarly analysis cannot stop his tears bathed in the sweet chloroform of sadness.

It is infinitely difficult to survive from one minute to the next.

There are always regrets.

He loved her.

He still loves her.

Heaviness of heart weighs the soul.