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Nathan, an only child, cares for his ill mother at home in an unnamed state. Once on a thriving farm, the house now sits in a giant, fallow field, isolated except for the occasional visitor. Chief among these is the narrator, Richard, Nathan's best friend and a bit of a moralizer, and Jessica, the friend that Nathan has a secret crush on, but who's engaged to another. Things change suddenly for Nathan when Jessica sleeps with him, but has severe morning-after regrets. As if this weren't alienating enough for Nathan, his mother passes away...
...Typically, these hoodlums bribe police and hospital officials for information about critically ill patients, traffic accidents or shootings. When they receive word of a fatality, they swoop in to claim the body and begin preparations for the funeral, even before relatives have been notified. There have been several cases of funeral companies whisking away cadavers only to discover later that the bodies are still breathing. Often, accident sites and hospital emergency rooms become the scenes of bloody brawls as morticians battle over access to the deceased. When family members arrive to claim their loved ones, they are presented with...
...city council for approval include, for example, forcing funeral company operators to publish their prices ahead of time and to submit to regular evaluations. Some hospitals in major cities now require morticians to enter lotteries to determine which of them are given access to family members of critically ill patients...
...scientist of the remote future lays down a piquant challenge to his colleagues at Cybertronics Manufacturing. "I propose that we build a robot who can love...a robot that dreams." Hurrah and alas, his dream is realized. Two years later, Cybertronics has assembled the perfect child, "always loving, never ill, never changing," and has found a potentially ideal couple to adopt him--or try him out. But we know the danger of answered prayers. Real life is messy; love can break your heart. Even the heart of a "toy boy" like David, who will be abandoned...
...days it is the curious aspect of its leading lady - make that ladies - being unable to perform. The original Eliza, soap-opera actress Martine McCutcheon, came down with flu on opening night March 16 and missed several weeks of the show's early run. Then her understudy also fell ill, prompting the producers on one night to rush the understudy's understudy on stage with only a few hours notice, a turn of events that a clearly wearied Pryce had to explain to the audience before the night's show began. "This will be your first Eliza," he said from...