What Might Be

He hears his father say the words “He’s dead” for the first time when he’s five years old, and he doesn’t quite know what that means yet. But he can tell from the look the doctors give him,that dead is probably not a good thing. He overhears the conversations between the men and white and his mother. How it might better to keep Dan satisfied and believing his delusions than to shock him into re-living the last six years. He’s happy with his daughter, and his wife, and so what if his son is dead? He’s still got a good good life.