Mystery Walk (2013)
“The simple granite gravestone read JOHN BLAINE CREEKMORE, 1925-1969. It stood up the hill from Link Patterson’s grave, and was sheltered by pine trees that would filter the sun and rain. The earth was still rough from the work of shovels, but soon the pine needles would fall and it would all be covered.
“He went to sleep,” Ramona said, long gray strands of her hair blowing from around her scarf. There were deep lines under her eyes and on each side of her nose, yet she refused to bend to the will of the years; she carried herself strong and straight, her chin uplifted. “I read the Bible to him that night, and we ate a good dinner of vegetables. He talked a lot about you, as he had for the few days before that, and he said he was trying very hard to understand…what we’re like. He said he knew you were going to be a great man, and he’d be proud of you. Then he said he was going to take a nap, and I washed the dishes. When I went in later to see about him, he…was as peaceful as a child.
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