The Haunting of Steely Woods by Bonnie Elizabeth

Author:Bonnie Elizabeth [Elizabeth, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: My Big Fat Orange Cat Publishing
Published: 2021-05-11T22:00:00+00:00

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Lucy: Early Fall Then

Lucy tugged at the door of the trailer. She’d gotten up that morning, intending to go town, maybe school. Maybe she’d even have talked to someone about her sister, but Alma had been up first and when she’d left, she’d locked the door.

The place stunk because Alma hadn’t emptied the toilet before leaving. Lucy needed to go but she wasn’t keen on going into the small bathroom with the partially full bucket.

Outside, wind rattled the trailer. Lucy felt like she was in a giant creaking and groaning body, unable to escape.

She looked at the windows. The small ones opened. The largest of them was over the little seating area in the back of the trailer, by the table. She crawled onto the bench that ran under it and tried to open the thing. It squealed. Wind gusted in, blowing her hair back. She shivered. It wasn’t that cold, but the wind bit into her body sending the slight chill deep into her bones.

No screen blocked her way as all of them had long since disappeared from the trailer, if it had ever had them. Unfortunately, the window only opened a little ways from top to bottom and that wasn’t quite wide enough for her to get her shoulders through.

Lucy debated about breaking it and making a run for it. But then she’d have to remain on the run. It probably meant telling someone what she’d done, what Alma had done.

Lucy climbed up to her bunk and began putting a few things in a pillowcase to more easily carry them. She searched through the small bedroom and under the bunk, going through Alma’s things, even the lacy underwear that was placed nicely in a drawer. Everything else was scattered around.

Some coins fell out of corners and crannies, and in the bottom drawer, Lucy found two twenties tucked away. She smiled. She pocketed that. She grabbed her coat. Then she tossed the pillow case and the coat out the window and pushed herself out.

The hinges on the window were harder to break than she expected. Her hands got tired of pushing, feeling achy. Her palms had a red line across them from where it had pressed against the window. Lucy watched her jacket slide under the trailer with the next gust of wind. She hoped that it didn’t blow out the other side and fly into the woods.

Lucy gritted her teeth and gave the window another push. Her hands banged against the side of the trailer when the window gave way, sending a shock up her arms. It took a moment before the ache dissipated and she could pull herself up and partly through the window. Only then did she realize she’d be falling out headfirst. Lucy slid back in the trailer and stood up and put a leg out first, angling herself to go out that way. She had to sit on the window and lean back, almost touching the table before she was able to slip through.

Her

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