Posts Tagged ‘Cemetery’
Aug
The Grave Diggers
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Bill and Greg had worked as gravediggers for the New Horizons Cemetery for more than twenty years, but their feelings about the job couldn’t have been more different.
Bill hated digging graves. He detested manual labor, felt weirded out being around so many dead people, and frequently complained about his increased risk of skin cancer. He regretted not having finished high school, leaving him with few options to feed his family.
Greg, on the other hand, approached his job with a more optimistic demeanor. He responded to every one of Bill’s complaints the same way.
“Well, it beats digging ditches.”
Jun
Graveyard Girl
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
During her lifetime, she had never actually been to a graveyard. The closest she came was holding her breath as the family station wagon drove by. Nor had she been to a cemetery. Nor a mausoleum, catacomb, or crypt.
But she could distinguish the difference, both etymologically and historically, between each of them. Her favorite stories were set in burial grounds, Gothic narratives dripping with death and love and tragedy.
So even though she was cremated, and her ashes spread out to sea, not many people were surprised to find her ghost haunting the church graveyard near her childhood home.