"Above the Mandolin, the Fiddle" by Samuel Nichols in Monkeybicycle

Jerry had been dragging around his dead wife for a week. Movies. Grocery Store. The park. The Sanford’s Halloween party, as a drunken zombie. People laughed at first, but when Hank Sanford saw the tip of a pinky finger drop like a cherry tomato onto his couch, he asked them to leave. Read story here.