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 f

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