His father's body waits on a large metal tray on the floor.
"He is just a body waiting for the day when it will be over".
There was no blood, no gore, just a lifeless body waiting to be hauled off by the village.
A patch of orange lichen both teams remark on has spread just one millimetre in a century; a frozen body waits, eternally preserved.
On the nights that Diana Athill lies awake in bed, in those uncountable minutes when the body waits for sleep and the mind won't give it, she lets her imagination wander.
One might imagine that they speak for Maria Maddalena's body, waiting to be overtaken by her reeling mind, or that they stand for her attendants, watching her in expectation.
Princess Margaret's body waited its turn behind those of Norah Cross, 94, Beryl Whitty, 85, and Ann Head, 94, all local people who died last week - royalists all, their relatives said, and linked at the last with royalty in the most unlikely way.
The Winter Olympics are over, but you're still convinced there's a short-track skating champion in your body waiting to emerge.
Let them feel the crowd grow silent, let them stare down the whites of the middle linebacker's eyes as his tense body waits for the snap so he can explode with 260 pounds of power.
