Scarecrow
“To pass the time and warm us up, Rachel passed around whiskey, and I drank more than I should have. No one wanted to be the first to leave, as if in some strange way it would be like admitting that something was very wrong. But Seth had been gone like this before. Rachel assured me. Many were the times that work had kept him and Micah far from the house when darkness fell or bad weather hit. That’s why there were sheds built all over the property, for emergencies such as these. And yet I had th...e unshakable feeling that what we were really dealing with wasn’t so much that Seth was somewhere out there, but that he wasn’t here.
At last Rachel blew out the lamps and we went up to bed, but I knew I’d never be able to sleep. I’d forgotten to warm a brick for the foot of my bed, but nothing could induce me to go back for it alone. I berated myself for having fallen such easy prey to all this talk of Girlie and her Gift, of Micah coming back, of life being breathed into dead birds. Yet I could still hear those unearthly noises at the barn—could still feel my utter terror, still hear the creak of the door being opened and something dragging itself inside… Oh, Seth, Seth, where are you?MoreLess
At last Rachel blew out the lamps and we went up to bed, but I knew I’d never be able to sleep. I’d forgotten to warm a brick for the foot of my bed, but nothing could induce me to go back for it alone. I berated myself for having fallen such easy prey to all this talk of Girlie and her Gift, of Micah coming back, of life being breathed into dead birds. Yet I could still hear those unearthly noises at the barn—could still feel my utter terror, still hear the creak of the door being opened and something dragging itself inside… Oh, Seth, Seth, where are you?MoreLess
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