Unearthed by Richard Chizmar

Author:Richard Chizmar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apokrupha LLC
Published: 2016-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

Roses and Raindrops

Richard Chizmar & Brian Keene

Another child was killed yesterday…

And probably right around the time that it happened, I was sitting alone on my screened-in back porch, eating dinner and watching the storm break. A bowl of cabbage soup and a cheese sandwich taken right there on the porch. Too tired to even make it to the dining room table. I’m getting to be an old fart, can barely leave the damn house anymore. This weather makes me feel even worse, but I stayed out just the same and watched until the clouds drifted away. There might not be too many left for me. Not too much of anything left for me, so I like to see all I can.

It wasn’t a big one. Not as far as storms go. Us folks here in Aberdeen, Virginia have seen much worse. I’d barely finished my soup when I noticed the wind letting up. Sure enough, a half-hour later, the rain slowed to a drizzle and the scattered line of baby evergreens along the north fence straightened and relaxed, while tiny waterfalls cascaded down onto their lower branches.

There hadn’t been much thunder or lightning this time around either. Nothing special or impressive about this storm. Just a steady, depressing downpour; the kind that creeps through the walls of your house and seeps right into your bones; the kind that makes you want to crawl into bed and pull up the covers even though it’s barely five in the afternoon.

So, no, it wasn’t a big storm, especially not for Aberdeen. Lasted barely a handful of hours, and then went on its merry way up north toward our Yankee neighbors in Maryland. A lot of folks probably thought—hoped—that we had gotten lucky this time. Escaped without harm. But a lot of folks are damned fools.

We didn’t get lucky. It happened again.

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