Blackwater Val
A gap was opened there, had ruptured the tree’s trunk but not killed it, creating an ugly, jagged knothole where kids might someday hide toys or trinkets, like Boo Radley and the scamps in Mockingbird had done.
Inside the funeral parlor he continued to watch his wife’s motionless form like someone in a trance, reliving these moments and memories beside her casket, all the while clasping onto her. He even recalled the time with the hypnotist, when they had sought out a psychotherapist in hopes that a session or two might be able to clear up some things.
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