Siesta Lane by Amy Minato

Author:Amy Minato
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2011-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

Dread

Everyone knows there’s a ghost at Siesta Lane. Shutters left open, spilled milk, laundry gone from the line, a distant, bitter laugh.

You may be alone in your cabin, listening to the rain, arranging books on a shelf, and she shows up—cold and pale, dripping on your welcome mat. Your insides liquefy like a spider’s victim. She is silent, still, sullen, tenacious.

All night you are a stone dropped into a deep well. You moan and writhe and do not sleep. She is greeting every anxiety of your life at the door and beckoning them in. It is her party, at your house.

There’s no easy out at Siesta Lane. It’s dark and quiet as a grave for miles around. Fears sidle up and jump on you like lap cats. Wrapped in goose bumps, percolating with nerves, you pet them. Loss, alienation, mortality. They purr and snuggle down.

During an excruciating self-imposed exile teaching in Greece right out of college, I resorted to staring in the mirror reminding myself that I was going to die, eventually. I thought that summoning fear would keep it from trailing me, like staring down a bully or a barking dog. But instead it was the Medusa. The more I looked at death, the more I turned to stone.

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