The Black Heart Crypt
“Zipper padded after him.They could both use a snack, maybe some milk that wasn’t chocolate, which was all they had in the basement fridge.You should listen to what your mother told you.Okay. That was a clue of some kind. The only hint Grandpa Jim could give (on account of the rules) without being sent to the big detention hall in the sky.Zack gave Zipper a dog biscuit. Poured himself a glass of milk. When he sat down at the table to drink it and stare out the windows, Zipper hopped up into his ...lap, leaving the bone-shaped biscuit on the floor.Zack figured his dog had seen enough bones for one night. He stroked the fur behind Zip’s ears and thought.What had his mother said?I’m different. I made mistakes.Then she sort of sounded like she was begging for forgiveness.Need … to … make … amends!“Amends” had been on Zack’s vocabulary test the past week. That she had used that word meant she wanted to apologize by making up for her mistakes, compensating Zack for damages and injury.Was that why she had also appeared at the Hanging Hill Playhouse over the summer?To help him?Maybe she’d stuffed her soul inside her sister’s body and come all the way to North Chester to make amends but she never got the chance because the three aunts sent her packing.Was his real mother a different person, like Grandpa Jim had said, now that she was dead and could look back on all the bad things she had done when she was alive?Zack stared out the kitchen windows.MoreLess
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