Just Like the Ones He Used to Know: Part VII

By Torontoist

This is the seventh installment of Robert J. Wiersema’s holiday tale of the ghostly and the miraculous, written exclusively for [email protected] and appearing every day until Christmas Eve. Wiersema is the author of the national bestseller Before I Wake and the novella The World More Full of Weeping.

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Graham tuned the car radio to the all-news station before he drove out of the parking lot behind the hospice.
The snow was still coming down, thick, heavy flakes that seemed to plunge through the air. The streets were a mess, little more than slushy, icy ruts that veered and followed earlier skids, lined with white humps of parked cars and the occasional walk-away: cars driven deep into snowbanks, or spun 180 degrees, or hopped up onto sidewalks, their owners nowhere in sight. READ MORE >>