My Brothers' Regret After My Death
Only under the influence of high-grade heroin could he see the version of Elena who still smiled at him, rather than the broken corpse in the morgue.
Six months later, they found a body in a gutter in the slums.
He was skin and bones, covered in maggots, clutching a childhood family photo in his cold, dead hand.
My parents lost all their children in the blink of an eye.
They stayed in that hollow, tomb-like Falcone mansion.
Every day, they had the staff prepare a massive feast, setting five extra plates. They talked to the empty chairs, pretending their children were still there.
In the end, they drifted into a world of dementia and rot.