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This post had its roots in an e-mail I got last week from Bridget, someone I've known since we were both teens. In a nutshell, she asked: "What's with all the @#$%^ dead wives in your fiction?"

She'd noticed a trend...there's a widower in No Cognitive Defect, and another in Water's Edge.

I told her she'd forgotten the widower in Tears of Saint Lawrence.

I decided to see how many other bodies I could unearth. It ain't pretty kids. Here we go:

Falling in Love with Loredana (work in progress): 1 widow
July 27: 1 widower
The Eternal Mayor: 1 widower
No Cognitive Defect: 1 widower
The Tears of Saint Lawrence: 1 widower
Joseph Plum and the Panic of 2000 (in re-write): 1 widower
Water's Edge: 1 widower

Dead wives: 6
Dead husbands: 1

It's not over...a new piece with a working title of From the Sky originally had no dead spouses. But hell, I'm on a roll. I'm throwing in a pair of dead wives. Maybe a husband or two as well.

Go for the gusto, that's what I say.