Disaster Victim Identification - A Story by Wondering

12/Jan/2010

The following is a fictional piece submitted on the Writers Cafe website. Definitely Fiction.

Disaster Victim Identification - A Story by Wondering
After she removed her plastic gloves, Robyn touched the charred remains of the yet-to-be identified female body with her fingers. She closed her eyes tight, concentrating. She felt nothing. In fact she never felt anything. When she started in Disaster Victim Identification - or DVI - over fifteen years ago, she began touching the victim’s remains hoping she would feel or see something. She was not sure what. Perhaps a flash of insight into who they were or how they had died. A sense of light or sadness or relief or love. Three hundred and thirty-four bodies later, Robyn had felt nothing.

Full story at: http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Wonderif/494662/