Horror Trope: “Another
Man's Terror. This trope takes place where one character is thrown into the
shoes of a dead man to experience his final moments....or he has to complete a
dead man's task, witnessing and experiencing what killed the person before you.”
Current Event:
Though I can't find this idea exactly, I'm sure it's out there somewhere...“Sister
dies, deadbeat brother channels her dreams”
Chengpao Yang
stared at his mother and said, “What?” She explained again in Hmong this time,
because her English was so bad, even his sister couldn't understand Mom right
now. If Mom was saying it right, Victoria would never be able to try and
understand her mother again. He said, “Are you trying to tell me that Victoria
is dead?"
The affirmative
was a wail of grief.
What followed
was both a long explanation of what happened and an accusation that if he’d
been home, she never would have tried to protect her mother against the robber
and died of a knife wound that had looked like a nick, but turned out to be
from a poisoned knife.
“You mean you
would rather have had me die than her?” Mother looked at him for a long time,
then buried her face in her hands and wept harder. She collapsed to the floor
in a puddle of her house clothes and hair. Chengpao stared down at her for a
long time, torn between the urge to kick her, break out into tears and weep, or
curse the world, his mother, his dead father, and his overachieving sister.
She rolled over
on to her back, staring through him and at the ceiling. Shaking his head, he
felt tears welling and finally said, “Fine then. If that’s what you want,” he
raised his arms into the air and shouted at the ceiling, “If the spirit of
Victoria is hanging out anywhere nearby, go ahead, take over my...”
Without missing
a beat, his voice abruptly pitched higher, his posture shifted, and he made a
motion with one hand that would have pushed a long strand of hair from his face
– if he didn’t have a crew cut. He’d had a crew cut since his thirteenth
birthday. He said, “Don’t worry Mom, I’m baaaack…”
Names: ♀ England, Laos; ♂ Laos, Laos
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