The Witch's Grave
ay? Hey, girl. Wake up. What
itting beside her, and the pregnant
Noway, girlfriend
e you missed your fries, walk, and
d struggled u
ure stood before the bathroom door with a knife, and he
ng from Stell
e, and it's getting me exasperated. Of
lk with someone about it and what's happening to you. I'
out. I don't want to see you dead or sitting immobile an
to worry me. I promise I'll do that as soon as
clock radio and shook her
enton, and I think I'll feel better. I'll do the boardwalk
ed to shower first. I'll wait for
d afterward, Robin spent a
Ariel gave her. She won fou
in her winning tickets, and she put the money in he
r than six blocks, but ac
, many oil storage tanks, and smoking towers, she followed the signs and found an upscale housing area instead of an
ton Cemetery. She waved a t
ildingshe saw. It proved to be the office/administration b
d on the door above the lock an
kins, secretary of the Den
purchase a plot for the burial? Do you wish to p
Robin from Seaford, Delaw
I wondered if you have a directory of plot owners or somet
o the publi
king for? I can tell you if they'reburied there. I've worked t
seeking. She's listed as my great- grandmo
e is open. We're closed for aten-year sabbatical start
rs
dial tone for a few minutes before the ph
've got problems. I should have reco
er key for the last numbers
on Cemetery. How may I help you on this awesome Dento
al expenses? How
won'thang up this time? If you don't help peopl
. You need to callback later. I'm the lone person here, and I'm not get
she is, I'll look for her grave on my own and
hours before Ro
e wasn't. I wish it was in
would be the prime spot for
ust stop and park the car. Walk back toward the entrance
pens to you, even if you stub your toe, I never talked wi
g evil.
ry to have bothered you
tone. She shivered from the icy response, moved to the
vew
, but I don't see how that's possible. Every cemetery has
f trouble while we do. Naugh
don't want her fired because of se
and it was just over 3/4 o
and parked facing the front.
ing and shifting as a solita
m its neighbors. It took a moment to figure that the gravesite had grass that had not
g it with scissors and doing it e
n tombstone with Cheri
1976. Under the last date,
A dried bouquet of flower stems lay on top of th
at appeared to have rested there forever. It boggled he
t, just dry and without flow
m. A thorough inspection of her area revealed a barrel marked TRASH near where s
ered r
e back tomorrow with some fresh flowers, and I'll return
I promise
ked towards her car, feeling noble and right abo
the stems into the trashcan, and she looked towards t
es and made sharp darting m
and it did not take Robin muc
e course but not circling and zigzagging. It maintained
ed the air as the crow stopped an
Sorry for your luck, buddy," s
rned to see it flying toward her, and s
t me like you demolished th
when the falcon squalled a
ed long enough to see it dropping toward her new location in an apparent attack maneu
ndshield but c
, dummy!" s
motion before the falcon h
nd more feathers. She squealed and
ll, but for Robin, her last thought of him was
ch. I'll get you somewhere and someday. Y
d at herself and drove toward the fro
m system that ghosts use for their protection? Whatever it was, it got my attention,
in receiving guests and relatives. Wow! What a d
trance and called the last
mail. She waited and left
and in Seaford, everything, even cemeteries, is peace and
, give my number to someone who can and will. After what
t do that to you. P