she held the young woman’s lungs in her hands. This Jell-O. Outside the human body, lung tissue didn’t hold its form. And now she could see just how sure the coroner had been that none of this would ever happen: he had nowhere to put them. The only container in sight was an orange plastic bucket from Home Depot. She grabbed the woman’s lungs and placed them into it, then tossed the bucket into the car and drove away.
