Day 5 - A Little Help from My Friends

I hesitated at the door again. I’d been trying to screw my courage to the sticking place. But I still could not actually go in the door. 

“Just go in already.”

I stood frozen, hand on door. 

“In, out, in, out.  To-ing and fro-ing. You’ve been pacing in front of this door, every day for a week.  Just go in already. What’s the worst that could happen?”

I sigh, hand dropping to my side. “They could find my body, wrapped in plastic and buried too shallowly in the state park next spring.”

I breathe, the tension flowing out of me. My shoulders descend from around my ears, my jaw unclenches. It all seems so silly now, now that I said that out loud. 

I lift my hand again to push open the door.  

“Wait. That’s, that’s something humans do to each other?”

I turned to face my interlocutor and see, in fact, I’ve been conversing with a crow.  

The crow says “No, don’t go in. Don’t. They never come out. The girls who go in there. We thought it was a long party. But....just don’t in there.  Let me show you something.”

......

“Mama, this why I ended up on the 6 o’clock news, showing the cops to the largest cache of bones found in the state. No, I didn’t put them there. I found them, with a little help from friends.”

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