Entry JPZM983G

The Orchard of Buried Secrets

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Abstract

When I was two years old, my father broke. He just lay there on the floor, perfectly still.

That same night, under the cover of darkness, my mother took me by the hand and we buried him in the apple orchard behind our house.

She told me that once Dad was ripe, he would fall from the branches just like the autumn apples. He would come back to me.

"This is our secret, sweetie," she had whispered, her fingers cold against my cheek. "If you tell anyone, Daddy will never get ripe."

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