KYLE REACH has a family secret. A strange disease that fatally strikes the males in the family by their mid-twenties. His wife CHARISSA prays the disease skips Kyle, for she doesn't want to spend the better part of her life a widow. She doesn't want to raise her unborn son by herself either.

But there is something more to the Reach women, Kyle's mother and grandmother, than just surviving widows.

This short story was originally published in the IF WALLS COULD TALK short story collection. Buy it now. Or purchase the complete collection.