He Calls Fridays with the Rain — Stephen Donald Huff

Declared missing-in-action while serving in Afghanistan, her eldest son's disappearance has left a massive whole in this mother's life. It cannot be filled by human sympathy or the keepsakes of memories, and, though he is certainly dead, she refuses to speak of it and insists he is still alive somewhere out there in the world. On her deathbed, she reveals to her family that he has been calling her every Friday when it rains. A mother's love for her children may transcend time. When it does, who can determine where reality ends and desperate fantasy begin? Only she and her son know the truth.