Abandon (2011)
“the courteous Master said to me, “All those who perish in the wrath of God Here meet together out of every land.” DANTE ALIGHIERI, Inferno, Canto III The office of the cemetery sexton, as he’d reminded me, closed promptly at six. It was way past that when I tapped on the door.
“You’re late,” Richard Smith grumbled when he threw it open. “But I wouldn’t have expected anything less. Come in.”
He stepped aside, allowing me to enter his immaculately neat office. Because the sun had already started sinking past the tree-tops, he’d turned on a small brass desk lamp, the only thing that seemed in keeping with the historical aspect of the Isla Huesos Cemetery, which a brass plaque by the door outside explained had been established over 150 years earlier, in 1847.
Which I suppose might have surprised most people, considering the fact that the office was housed in a quaint, whitewashed cottage complete with a picket fence, tin roof, front porch, windows with turquoise shutters, and original pine floors.
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