Ten years later Rachel found herself married to a dentist named Herman Shocker. The Shocker family lived in a lovely house on Crow Street. Rachel worked at the local library as a librarian. It was eight o’ clock in the morning. Her cup of Banana hot chocolate sat beside her in the cup holder of her 2006 Chrylser 300. She came to a red light and sat there for a moment waiting for the damn thing to turn green.

  She saw a cute scarecrow with a grinning jack o’ lantern for a head sitting on the front porch of a pretty, white, house, with a picket, fence. It was Halloween and that meant that weird chill was in the air that only a Midwestern town in October could bring about. The light turned green and Rachel turned off the main road and pulled into the library’s parking...

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