Night of shades
“One girl every year. Yes. My Janey was one of them, in 1959. They told me that she was hit by a car, one of those boys drag racing with other boys, but it wasn’t true. She was out in the woods, just like all the others. There wasn’t enough left of her to fit in a mason jar, you know. Except for her head. He always leaves the heads behind. Mr. Schneider never really was right again after Janey died. All the joy went out of him.
“I had her late, so late we thought we would never be blessed. I was almost thirty-five when she was born. Full of spit and fire, she was. She had red curls all over her head. Beautiful thick red curls that shone in the sun.”
Riley didn’t say anything, because he felt
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