Mysteries and Suspense Short Stories Collection by Tamikio L. Reardon (best ebook reader for ubuntu .TXT) 📕

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has ever seen or heard of them. Until this day the Mausoleum Cemetery still remains an unsolved mystery, but a never ending story.

I met Kelly Jane in 1990 and we had been friends for ten years. Much like the Parker twins, Kelly Jane kept to herself also it seems I was her only friend and she too went to a different school. I’m too embarrassed to tell anyone that in all the ten years I have been friends with her I have never been to her house…..much less ever seen where the girl had ever lived. She claims that her dad was very abusive and it was not a good idea for her friends to come over to her house. Stupidly, being friends with someone for ten years and not being able to go to their house? At the time I felt it was not important we had fun at Tony’s and my house all the time anyways. Misty, Jeanette and Brittanie didn’t really like her they thought she was very creepy and often wondered why I hung out with the girl. So I kept my two set of friends separate……there was just something about Kelly Jane. Not only I was literate to where she lived, but I never knew the girl’s last name or if she had any brothers or sisters who lived in her home. She would never let me walk her home much less drive her home in my car she always preferred to walk, but she always made it home safe and at night. Finally coming out of my deep mind meditation, I opened the gates to the big huge cemetery. The Parker boys were last seen in 1990 nobody ever saw them come out of this place, but as the last ten years went by the place started to deteriorate. The lawn started going unkempt, the pavement started to crack more around the walk way, the structure of the house started to crack also with darken age of only ten years. Residence said no one even saw them bring Mr. Parker out of the house much less attend to his funeral, but people knew his was dead. The Parkers hated people no one was allowed to come to Mr. Parker’s funeral much less be around his boys they were very private and void. Nobody really cared all they knew was that they wanted to stay as far away from these people as possible and they did. It seems nobody saw me approach the residence and there was no need for me knock on the door nobody lived here and Kelly Jane and I was a witness to this the night we came here on Halloween. I opened the screen door and it creaked on its edges. What I could not understand is how could this place age so bad and old when it has only been ten years? This place looks as if it’s been vacant for thirty or forty years. There is one thing that Kelly Jane and I never did get a chance to take a look at that day we were in this place and that is the cemetery out back of the house. This place was so big on the inside we stayed attached to each other the whole time, we planned on having a story to tell after we left this place and we wanted to prove to people whatever the outcome was. We wanted to be the one who said we were brave enough to go inside this place. After what happened here, I never tell anyone we were ever here at all. The door was still unlocked to the house of course it

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would be we probably were the last ones to ever set foot in this place in ten years. It seemed that the Parkers did not take care of this place after their father died much less not doing the yard work. Now they didn’t even lock up the place, put up for sale or market. They just left it and they vanished without trace. Too bad the Parkers didn’t have any friends there was no onto check up on them or to see how they were doing. People were just that afraid of them and wanted to keep their distance. Suddenly I felt someone’s hands on my shoulder. I spun around to find a creepy looking man staring me in the face with hot breath. I screamed and jumped back knocking his hand off my shoulder. He stepped closer looking me in the eyes “You must get away from him here now!? Screaming even louder, I dodged the old creepy man and ran out of the gates to the end of the block. As I reached the end of the block, I stopped to bend over to catch my breath and my heart from pounding recklessly against my chest. I looked back at the Cemetery and the man was gone.

It was Saturday night Halloween. Misty, Jeannette, Brittanie and I were going to Steven Keller’s Halloween party up on haunted hill. I really didn’t feel like going with them I still had plans to go back to the cemetery. Now I definitely knew for sure there was something I need to find out. The old creepy man didn’t want me near the place. I had to get rid of the girls for a couple of hours until I go back into that place I needed to go alone. Misty called at 5:00 that evening to see what time I would be ready for the party we were meeting Jeannette and Brittanie there and Misty was picking me up. There was no way were walking anywhere on Halloween. I decide to answer my phone and talked to Misty. “Hello?” “Hay what you doing?” “Hay, I’m looking for a something to wear I’m not sure if I should wear a costume or just wear regular clothes.””You know everyone is going to wear costumes, but of course you never showed for the party to even know this that night.””Yea whatever listen, I’m not going to be ready to leave when you are so I will met your there I’m diving my own car.” Misty got quiet on the other end of the phone. She sighed, “Delilah what’s going on?” “Misty I’m a grown woman I don’t have to explain anything to anyone when I make a decision it would be nice if you of all people would respect this.””Okay, okay I will see you there.” She hung up the phone without giving a chance to say anything else. I didn’t care all I wanted to do was get rid of her until after I go back to the cemetery that was it. I decided again to walk to the cemetery I still didn’t want anyone to see my car or see me anywhere around the place. I’m pretty sure that old man is nowhere near the cemetery and he won’t be on Halloween late at night. I plan on going there at 9 the same time Kelly Jane and I went seven years ago. I was just obsessed with finding out what happened to her I believe that if I go back to that place I could find some kind of clues as to what might have happened to her. I have gone seven years holding this inside of me and I

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can’t wait any longer. I told mom I was leaving to over to Misty’s early for the party she was ok with it and plus she had a date tonight herself as well a party at the office with her co workers. Again I dressed warm as I left out my front door heading the same route as I did on Halloween night on October 31, 1994.

Midway Lane was even spookier at 9:00pm and it was first dark. All I could do was get my mind off of how I was alone going to the cemetery at night, the same place my friend came up missing seven year ago. I finally made it to the front of the gates looking around the property I wanted to make sure there was no one around. Of course no one was going to come trick or treating around this area not even some of the dumb jocks at school who loved to play pranks on other kids. I entered the cemetery closing the gates behind me they also made a rusted noise. Holding myself against the chilly strong winds, I quickly walked up to front stoop opened the screen door and turned the knob to the front red oak wood door. To my surprise the door was still unlocked. This time I quickly opened the door, went inside closed and locked the door behind me. I wanted to make sure nobody came inside behind me. The house was so cold on the inside dressing warm for the outside did no good. I turned to look at the huge living room of the house there was a fireplace and big picture mirror engraved above it. The house still had the furniture with the white sheets over it none of the furniture in the house was ever move out, but someone did take the time to throw some sheets over it. There was a stairwell over to the right that lead up to the four bedrooms they had in the place, a guest room, dining room, back patio and a garden. This was once a nice house except for the cemetery out back which had dead people in them at one time. Kelly Jane and I never made it beyond this living room she for some reason wanted to go right upstairs and explore that area first before going out back. I never got to see what the cemetery looked like behind the house. Tonight I would search this place from top to bottom even though it’s a very huge place I would make sure I got the most important parts of the house first. I was going to cemetery I will not get another given chance to miss that area again. As I walked past the stairs I stopped at the bottom and looked up……I do remember Kelly Jane and I going up these very stairs that where it all happened and she never came down. Directing my attention back to the kitchen where I proceeded to out toward the cemetery, there were still chairs and table furniture in the dining room and small furniture in the nook. It was strange how the Parkers just up and left this place. I guess the twins didn’t know what to do with it after their father died, but for them to just up and leave it is too farfetched. Another thing I don’t understand, Henry was so obsessed with this place like his dad if anyone else could have handled this place it would have been him why didn’t he take

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care of the place? Standing in front of the back door I had finally made it to the grounds of the cemetery. I began to open the back door and stopped in front of it. Getting a good look at my surroundings I gasped, there were still headstones in the back of this house along with the cemetery! They didn’t have not moved the bodies out of the cemetery much less the furniture out of the house! I stepped back into the kitchen and closed the door terrified. Were these people crazy! How could they just leave this house and everything like it was? My mind was racing and I had to get myself together I had came this far.