Bone Meal Broth by Adam Cesare

Author:Adam Cesare [Adam Cesare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Dark Fiction, Short Stories
Goodreads: 13554816
Publisher: Rollin & Jeanie Press
Published: 2012-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Come back,” Blair said, wheezing as she ran after the little girl with flowers in her hair. She hadn’t exercised since the last time she had been to the campus gym, and since coming home she smoked a pack of Parliaments a day. There would be no catching the little girl. Her footfalls were heavy and clumsy, and she prayed that she wouldn’t catch a root and twist her ankle. When the little girl was just about out of sight‌—‌right when Blair was ready to give up and rest against a tree‌—‌the little girl stopped and turned around.

She wore a plain brown dress, adorned with loops of dried grasses, bordered at the shoulders with fresh green vines, with a dark leather belt around her waist. When Blair was a little girl herself, she had played the Wise Old Tree in her fourth-grade play. The little girl reminded her of herself and the costume that her father had helped her make out of burlap and green tights.

The girl lifted one corner of her mouth in a cute, mischievous variant of a smile, then raised one dirt-smudged hand in a wave and stepped behind a tree and was gone.

Sucking in greedy mouthfuls of air and wiping the sweat and hair out of her eyes, Blair stood staring at the tree the girl had disappeared behind. The trunk was maybe half a foot in diameter, much too slender to hide the little girl‌—‌if there even had been a little girl at all.

Still panting, Blair felt herself beginning to crack, a sob of frustration rising up in her throat. She pressed her eyes closed and tried to stop the tears. When she could not, she looked down at her feet and recoiled at the broken corpse of a squirrel.

“What am I doing here?” she asked herself.

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