Lynn Hesse
Nope:
On Halloween my best friend and I sat on the stone wall dividing old town from the church's cemetery and watched the sun go down and vanish, replaced by the moon. The wind picked up and grabbed at the skirts hanging below our knees. Barbara saw them first, the headlamps bobbing in the darkness and then the six solemn men from the mines passed—one by one in a straight line with pickaxes over their shoulders—leaving the smell of coal dust in the cold evening air.
On Halloween my best friend and I sat on the stone wall dividing old town from the church's cemetery and watched the sun go down and vanish, replaced by the moon. The wind picked up and grabbed at the skirts hanging below our knees. Barbara saw them first, the headlamps bobbing in the darkness and then the six solemn men from the mines passed—one by one in a straight line with pickaxes over their shoulders—leaving the smell of coal dust in the cold evening air.
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