“Been a month has it?”

The words came out hard and cold. Speaking to dead people is never easy, especially when they were friends. Winston Marsh couldn’t help but come here, because he was completely and absolutely out of ideas.

“Things have gone to shit now that you’re gone. Maybe you kept us together? I mean, shit, it feels like the days when we were getting known. No label, nothing. Monk on Fire is down, and...so are we.”

One thing you could count on in Seattle was rain, rain and music. Yet the sheer emptiness of the cemetery made it so that the latter was absent. Only silence reigned here, no retort from the corpse of Gears of Bremen’s former guitarist.

“What would you do?”

Winston fell to his knees, and rammed his fist into the tombstone, again and again, and again....and again. Tears went fell with his hands to his sides.

“We’re done aren’t we? We’re fuckin’ done.”

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On the other side of Seattle, the other lesser-known Marsh brother was getting soaked by rain. That was the least of his problems, because he knew what was coming up. He stopped walking and with a sigh, turned and looked directly at his family house.

Time could only crawl as Greg walked up each step and brought his fist to the oak door twice.

The door flung open and Greg immediately knew that the day could only get worse. Standing between the frame was his father, Father Judah Marsh.

“I knew you would be back some day, boy.” Each word that left his father’s mouth reminded him of a hate-filled sermon, one that he had been subjected to as a boy.

“Nice to see you to, where’s mom?” Greg asked, his emotion draining as evident by his tone.

“Your mother?” Judah laughed out after speaking. “She’s been dead for a year.”

“You never thought that maybe her sons would want to know!?” Greg yelled back into his face.
“You know how broken she was after you two ran away, now you coming in boy, or you come to exchange pleasantries?”

Greg could only stagger into the house, this was going to be the worst Thanksgiving he ever had.