Pushing Daisies - Season 1 Online

The first time it happened, he was nine years old, and his mother dropped dead of an aneurysm right in front of him. In his panic, he touched her cheek. She gasped, sat up, and smiled. But the miracle came with a rule, cruel and absolute: if he touched her again, she would die forever. And if he let her live for more than sixty seconds, something else nearby would die in her place.

He knew her. The girl from grade school. The one who had called him “the boy with the lopsided smile and the sad eyes.” The one he’d secretly loved from across the playground. Pushing Daisies - Season 1

They met in the aunts’ orchard, under a bruised twilight sky. Chuck’s father embraced her. But Dwight Dixon arrived with a gun. In the chaos, Ned touched Chuck’s father—reviving him from a bullet wound—only to realize too late that he was now holding a living person. To save Chuck’s life, he would have to let her father die again. The first time it happened, he was nine