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Chapter One

The ocean swept beneathcurrents, keeping pace withbody White caps appeared and disappeared and once I caught the spraying plu

So my son&039;s side, I knew this Soirl while my son is sick in the hospital, that I should be by et it No doubt so for a cure, not resting until et that, too

Belowpace withto starboard The beaches appeared, and soon the exorbitantly expensive ho in the back of one of them I passed in front of theup, pointing

But I&039;uess there are very few of us, indeed I could seeI could see it, feel it, hear it

And not only that, I knew the hour of his death, and it was approaching

Fast

The beachfront hoave way to beautiful condos and hillside ho cloud which scattered before s

I had a decision to est decision of et away, even for just a few h it I had to know that what I was about to do, or not do, was the right decision

Until I realized there was only one answer

I was a mother first Always first, and if I had a chance to saveto save hih the cloud and out into the open air My innate sense of navigation kicked in and I was locked on to St Jude&039;s Hospital in Orange

Chapter Two

It was late when I swept into the parking lot

I circled just above the glow of halogen lighting,down next to ed creature owned a five-year-old hable No, it was incomprehensible

I wasn&039;t worried about security caexcept followed later by a spunky, thirty-seven year oldon whether I wore make-up Without make-up, the ca

Of course, knowing that I did not appear on caht coating on my arms and backs of my hands Still, no doubt there were hundreds of surveillance videos out there of an unseen woman Want to kno to find vah, I alighted near the van&039;s cargo door, which itself faced a listless nolia tree The tree was surrounded by so to with the hospital&039;s plu But what the hell did I know?

The area wasn&039;t quite big enough to acco so one of the pipes

Life goes on

InI focused on her, and she seemed to move towardthat came next was difficult to describe, since there really was no feeling As if awakening frohtly, and raisedinto a small spider plant that had seen better days I fluffed up the little plant and stood Next, I reached under my fender and found the small hide-a-key that I kept there

Shh Don&039;t tell anyone

I unlocked thewas still there, and a few ed froiant monster bat into a concerned mommy was now complete

My life is weird

I checked the time on my cell It was just after 2:00 am I would say the vampire&039;s hour, but the truth is, any time between sundown to sunup are the va with one home by now After all, Anthony appeared, to all those concerned, to be fairly stable It was only htened extrasensory perception that suspected that not all was as it seemed

Indeed, I knew my son had only hours to live If that

I had taken some of that time to come to a decision

And I hadth I seemed to so the staff there would allow ht determinedly, ould be sick no more

Chapter Three

"Hello, Sauard Rob was a big guy who probably took steroids You know there&039;s trouble when the night shift at a children&039;s hospital knows you by name

I said "hi" and he sh

At the far end of the center hallas a bank of elevators As I headed toward it, I heard a vacuulanced casually at the cleaning creorking awayand saw soht hovered around the cleaning crew Many such balls of light I knehat these were now They were spirits in their purest forms Soraphs Many non-believers assumed such orbs were dust on the lens But the camera could never fully capture what I could see To y, endlessly fory around the black about these Indeed, they were often whitish or golden, and sometimes they appeared red And sometimes they were more than balls Much more Sometimes they were fully formed hu lady looked up at me I smiled and turned my head just as one of the whitish electrified balls see pace with hosts

And as the elevator doors closed in front of me and I selected the third-floor button, the ball of white light slipped through the elevator&039;s seam and joined me for a ride up

It hovered just in front of ht and then to the left, and then it hovered about a foot in front of my face

The elevator slowly rose one floor

"It&039;s not polite to stare," I said

The ball of light flared briefly, clearly agitated It then shot over to the far corner of the elevator and stayed there for the rest of the ride up

The doors dinged open and I stepped out onto my son&039;s floor

Alone

Danny was there, sleeping