The Omen Days: A Christmas Ghost Story by J.T. Ellison

Author:J.T. Ellison [Ellison, J.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Two Tales Press
Published: 2015-12-08T05:00:00+00:00

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The sun is shining, masking the bitter cold outside. I didn’t know Texas could get so cold, but I’m wearing a North Face fleece and damn glad I packed it, because it’s colder than a witch’s tit down here.

The Omen Days are over. There has been a requisite rebirth; the season’s requirements are met. My life has changed, altered. I will never be the same again.

Autumn is still in the hospital in Austin, but is better, much better. The break was lower than we first thought, and the doctors think the damage to her spinal cord is temporary, that she’ll be able to walk again. She’s already getting feeling back in her toes. They think the trauma of the broken vertebrae caused swelling, and that’s what’s shutting off the signals to her brain that her feet really do work. It is a miracle. Torres finally told me the details of the other bodies they’d found. They all had their backs broken. Winchester’s gruesome signature: he paralyzed his victims so they couldn’t run away or even fight him. He was a coward.

We haven’t discussed what he did to her over the course of the twelve days he had her. She’ll tell me when she’s ready, and I will listen, knowing I’ve meted out the justice she deserves.

Late that first night, I did ask how it all happened, how she managed to find me. I was holding her hand and she was trying, and failing, to sleep. We talked, quietly, low.

“How did you get me the watch?”

She looks distant and eternal, like she’s touched the sky and the stars and they’ve left a mark on her.

“I don’t know. Not really. It was like a dream. He took it off the . . . the first time, put it on the dresser. When he started to hurt me, I fought back. He slugged me, flipped me over onto the floor and stomped on my back, and I got all kinds of floaty. That’s when I had the dream. I dreamed of you, Zack. And I knew you could help me. I got up, walked away from him and the things he was doing, took the watch and . . . found you. I know it doesn’t make any sense.”

“I don’t care if it makes sense or not. I am so proud of you, honey. So proud.”

I’m not kidding. It doesn’t matter how she managed to leave her body and find me. All that matters is that she’s going to be okay, and she’s going to be mine.

Torres and his team have already found six bodies buried on the ranch property, plus the bones of a male Caucasian in an abandoned well three miles from the barns. It will take a while to sort out who is who, and the ranch covers so many thousands of acres they will be searching for a while, but they are calling the mission a success. A sad success, but so many families will finally know

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