Wes Coffey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They didn't know where.
And we'd been hiking through terrain that hadn't seen a human print in weeks.
There was nobody up there who should have known my brother's name.
I whispered, "'Who is that?'
Cole didn't answer.
He was staring up at the ridge with his rifle half-raised."
Cole, over here.
It was closer still.
And here's the part I can't get past.
It sounded like our dad.
Our dad had been dead for 11 years.
I don't know how to describe it to you.
The voice wasn't exactly right.
It was like somebody doing an impression of our dad.
someone who had heard him but wasn't quite him.
The pitch was close, the cadence was close, but there was something underneath it, a roughness, a flatness, that was not our father.
Cole went white.
He lowered his rifle.
For a second I thought he was going to answer.
I grabbed his shoulder.