The Last Vigil
by Francis Porretto
Price: Free! 1200 words.
Published on April 1, 2012. .
Most of us would like to have had more of a say about the stations in life we've come to occupy. We don't get to choose our parents, for example. But what of the man who finds himself assigned to perform a dreadful deed -- one he cannot, by any exertion of will or imagination, avert?