The apparition speaks

Are you his people?

I was at home that day, the day it happened. I was waiting on my son to come by to carry me up to St. Joe to my sister’s funeral. I’d just lost my husband, you see, and wasn’t up to the drive.

Those two cars hit, and there was a fire and that boy and his little dog died. You could hear the dog, too, for a minute, but it seemed a lot longer. An ambulance came of course – the closest one is from Sedalia – but by then it was just too late.

His people do come by, sometimes, and put out new flowers. I get my grandson to mow around it.

No, it doesn’t bother me to have this outside my window.

But I can still remember that little dog’s howl.

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Benton County, Missouri