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FIVE

Bobby and I parted that night with very little to say, though at the time I’d thought that was because of the congregation’s rush to the parking lot after the service. Bobby got caught up with his family, me with Dad. Looking back, however, I realize that something had already started worming its way between us, which, of course, I didn’t know at the time.

I tried not to think about those dead dogs and that weird altar thing as Dad silently drove home. Like anyone faced with something they didn’t understand, I wrapped it up in a little box and shoved it deep down inside me.

We were always hearing about weird stuff like that, anyway. A few years before, folks had found dead skinned cats next to the railroad tracks behind the high school. Most kids thought the abandoned barn sitting in an old cornfield on the edge of town was haunted. A ghost girl supposedly haunted Bassler Road on the way to Clifton Heights.

Every small town has its creepy stories. Even though our town was smal
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