Reunion

[munsi]

For my last wish, I wished you back to me.

It’d been nearly a year since the funeral, but the time had done nothing. If anything, my life had fallen farther apart each passing day.

So I wished.

The Genie smiled, nodded, and told me my wish was granted, and that you’d be home by dusk.

So here I sit. With a bottle of the wine we drank the first weekend you came to town to see me, and cinnamon rolls from the place at the mall you’d always liked.

And a shotgun.

Waiting.

However it turns out, I’m ready.

[manintheshack]

Nice. This really reminded me of another story or movie, but I just can't put my finger on it. Anyone who wishes a loved one back from the dead would be fool not to prepare for the worst. However, if they don't turn out to be a zombie, you may have a hard time explaining away that shotgun...

"Really? A shotgun?"
"But you could have been a walking corpse!"
"But still... I can't believe you were actually considering killing me! Or unkilling me. Or... whatever. Do you know how that makes me feel?"
Etc. Etc.

[Jmsbrtms]

Your thinking of The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs.

Munsi it's nice to see realism in horror characters.

[flyawaybefree]

i didn't see that one coming

[munsi]

be always prepared, that's my motto

[Phenopath]

be always prepared, that's my motto

Were you a boy scout, or do they teach that on the super-villans correspondence course?

[babydyke]

Nifty.

[uncre8d1]

Very nice. I would have a shotgun, but it would scare my sissy dog (a golden - y'know, a hunting dog).