The Night the Flashlight Beam Hit Something That Was Not a Tree
I went into the woods looking for a lost dog, but my flashlight caught something standing rigid between the pines that defied every law of nature.
I went into the woods looking for a lost dog, but my flashlight caught something standing rigid between the pines that defied every law of nature.
It sits behind the stone foundation where the old house used to stand. Nobody goes there anymore, except for the things that listen.
Maps are finite lines drawn by people who prefer limits. But the trees behind my property line stretch on into something that refuses to be charted.
I used to think death was simply a quiet fading out. That was before I watched my brother cross over, and before I felt what waited on the other side.