Short Story: One Flew Over Your Father's Death

Jimmy was only ten years old at the time of his father's death. This means that if he watched over his father for one year, his vigil as comforter began when he was nine and ended when he was ten. While he lay slowly dying, Jimmy's father talked and endlessly talked "pouring out all that was left of his life to one bewildered little boy." Watching at a tender age over your father's death is traumatizing in its own right but when that watching means being exposed to desperate discourse of a man trying to reconcile himself with the rationality of irrational ironic events, the trauma is