Long Way Back

James Vandael died at seventy-nine, in a hospital bed, with no one beside him.He woke in the summer of 2003, twenty years old, in the bedroom that raised him.Blue boats on the wallpaper. Sour sheets. His father's newspaper snapping in the kitchen below.He knows exactly how this life goes, because he has already spent it. He failed the medical entrance exam because he was too frightened to sit it p...