What He Deserves

He can hear them, as he lies in the hospital bed. "Coma," the nurses whisper. An accident. A 911 call. But Richard remembers none of it. What happened to him?Richard Lyons knows he's a good man-a good husband, a good provider, a good father. He works hard and doesn't suffer fools. So, when he finds himself in a coma, unable to speak, but able to hear those around him, he's desperate to awaken. Desperate to return to the life he remembers with his wife, Clarissa, and son, Andrew. Only the life he remembers doesn't match what's happening. The nurses wonder aloud why Clarissa still visits given what Richard did; Andrew never comes; and the police investigating whatever happened leave Richard with more questions than answers. Richard's memory is like swiss cheese: riddled with holes. As flashes of life come back to him, Richard sees the life he thought he knew fade away after a shocking revelation about Andrew. Hoping recovering his memories will be the key to awakening, Richard struggles to recall where things went wrong. Only, as snippets of his past return to him, Richard begins to wonder which will be worse: never remembering at all or knowing the whole truth...