"I'll fight," she mouths. Her eyes come up and lock on mine. "For us, I'll fight."
"Even if this takes you," I say. "Don't you dare stop fighting."
"I'll fight," she says again, with airy emphasis.
"No matter how deep. No matter how far. If you hear me calling, you come back to me."
Her body is trembling now.
I grip her arms. "Promise me, Kate!"
I feel the familiar tingle as the hair on the back of my neck stands on end. It has come at last. The part that matters most. The part that reminds me all things are possible.
Kate's face and body tighten, as though she is giving birth. Words force their way through her lips. Not a whisper. Not a hiss. Real words. "I PROOOOOOMISSSSssssssE!" she groans.
I shudder a breath. Though she has done this several times, it has not lost its impact on me. Not simply because the dead don't speak, but because on the day when this conversation took place, she didn't make that promise.
It might be wishful thinking on my part. I realize this. But I believe she can hear me. I believe that somewhere deep inside this dead flesh, my wife is still alive. She stays bent over, staring wide eyed, as if she too can’t believe what just happened, but this stage won’t last long. I step away and look through the kitchen at the door to the cellar. It is still open. Good.
With a twist, Kate looks at the front window of the living room that is now haphazardly boarded over. Knowing what will happen next, I seal my ears with my fingers.
Kate lets out an ear-splitting scream and runs into the kitchen toward the knives on the counter, but before she can slide one free of the wooden holder, she spins and looks to where I was standing in the kitchen on that horrible day. She nods furiously, races through the kitchen, and disappears into the cellar.
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~Authors Note~
Lies is a work of fiction. If you want to read some non-fiction accounts of how God interacts with us, try Miracles: 32 True Stories. My wife and editor, Joanie Hileman, has compiled these accounts of God’s miraculous intervention.
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