Inferno Park
“she said. “Curfew.”“Yeah.”“What do we do now?” she asked.“I don’t know.” He told her about glimpsing the ghosts of the two girls. “Maybe Emily was right. It’s a dark place, a trap for souls.”“So if you die inside the park, you become one of the ghosts haunting it. And the park just killed seven people.”They didn’t speak for a minute, and then he climbed out of the car.She called him almost immediately as she drove home, and they stayed on the phone together for more than an hour, sometimes talk...ing about what they’d seen, sometimes just staying silently connected so neither had to face their thoughts alone.When they were done, Carter took down the yearbook from a shelf in his closet. It was from seventh grade, and it fell open to the customary place, the only reason he ever looked at the old book at all.She smiled, showing a little gap in her teeth, her pale blond hair drawn back in braids for picture day. The faces around her had aged into teenagers, and many of them had moved out of town with their families, but her face would never change, and she would never grow up and escape this town.This was how he needed to remember her, young and full of life.MoreLess
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