Proof of Heaven

After determining that there were plenty of people to continue my bedside vigil, all agreed that the ...

was, he knew, essentially impossible. But once Holley finally had him convinced that I really was in a coma ...

a bed: a cruel and alien twin of the father he once knew. By the end of the week these occasional bu ...

called his assistant. “No,” she replied. “I’ve been here all morning, and his condition has not changed much ...

18. To Forget, and to Remember My awareness was larger now. So large, it seemed to take in the entire unive ...

19. Nowhere to Hide By Friday, my body had been on triple intravenous antibiotics for four full days but sti ...

worked especially hard to keep her away from the subject. By now, everyone knew that even if I ...

Saturday passed with the ongoing vigil around my bed and the hopeful conversations between family and doc ...

Bond. There was a lot of nervous chatter, and a lot of dancing around the subject on everyone’s mind: that ...

20. The Closing Each time I found myself stuck again in the coarse Earthworm’s-Eye View, I was able ...

I moved down through great walls of clouds. There was murmuring all around me, but I couldn’t und ...

21. The Rainbow Thinking about it later, Phyllis said that the one thing she remembered above all else about ...

“Have a seat,” Dr. Wade told Sylvia and Holley in a tone that was kind but also unmistakably grim. “ ...

22. Six Faces As I descended, more faces bubbled out of the muck, just as they always did when I was ...

well of clouds and praying angelic beings through which I was descending, I suddenly realized ...

23. Final Night, First Morning Before sitting down with Dr. Wade, Holley told Bond to wait outside t ...

into it. The only time my eyes opened was when the doctors checked for pupil dilation in reaction to ...

Phyllis was still thinking about the rainbow she’d just seen when she exited the elevator. She was pushing ...

24. The Return Bond had envisioned his same old dad would wake up, take a look around, and ...

mind), feeling the familiar buffeting as I fell beneath the prop blast, watching from upsi ...