Off the Map …. begins at Part One HERE.
Part Sixteen
Confused and puzzled, Jimmy then sat back and gazed out the dirty window, trying to figure out what was going on. And struggling to remember his “lost” night.
As he was letting his mind work, his eyes were looking toward a patch of woods about 60 feet beyond the small, overgrown back yard. As he was looking, a shaft of sunlight burst through the tree branches and lit up a patch of ground as brightly as any spotlight. With his attention now focused on the sunbeam, he squinted at the subject of the light and saw something sticking out of the ground.
Filled with a new-found curiosity, he got up and walked out onto the back porch and looked harder. The sunbeam looked like it was illuminating an old, abandoned graveyard. Drawn like a moth to the flame, Jimmy felt the urge to stride out to the old burial plot and see what was there. A few seconds later he found himself in what appeared to be a family burial site. But the sunbeam was focused on one old gravestone in particular, so he approached it and looked at it more closely.
The old granite headstone was weathered and starting to deteriorate, but he could just barely make out what it said:
L. Ryde Hood
born 12 September 1853
died during childbirth
17 August 1878
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The End
Mystery Minute 03 will begin Monday November 23.
You can read Mystery Minute 01 The Legend of Old Red beginning HERE.
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