Unhallowed Ground
“They were dressed casually, in T-shirts and jeans, but a few wore top hats, as if they were planning to join an orchestra. They held their instruments with bony fingers, grinned wicked, lipless grins, and stared at her with empty eye sockets.When she turned back to her table, everything about her friends had changed.They were skeletons, as well. Will was drinking a beer, and she watched the amber liquid pass through his rib cage and disappear below the table.Renee had a bandana tied around her ...head, just as if she were holding her hair in place, but there was no hair there. She was dressed in the homespun cotton outfit she often wore when giving lectures at the museum.Barry was wearing a stovepipe hat.A bone forefinger touched her shoulder. She looked up and saw that it belonged to Al, the bartender.“You having a beer, or would you rather a glass of wine?” he asked her.She opened her mouth to answer him, but nothing came out. She wanted to scream, to ask them all whether they realized something was wrong—that they had all turned to bones.Then she looked across the room and saw someone who wasn’t a skeleton.Caleb Anderson.He was standing in the doorway, solid, living flesh.His eyes met hers, and he shook his head, as if trying to make her understand…something.“We all have masks on, all the time,”MoreLess
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