October 13, 2022 – Tessa Dean

Cemetery – Image by KL Caley

For visually challenged writers, the image shows a cemetery path with graves and trees aligning each side of it.

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Alone?

By Tessa Dean October 2022

As I sat in my vehicle at the cemetery, waiting for the gravestone the family had ordered to arrive, I was trying to read a scary book. Perhaps not the best choice because besides the fact that it was peaceful and quiet there, I was nervous and came to a scary part in the book just as the delivery guy spoke to me through my open window. I screamed, which scared him as well.

We laughed it off, and he went to work placing the gravestone on the grave. I went back to reading since I knew I wasn’t alone. I don’t find cemeteries peaceful, although I know many people do.

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