When father said we were moving, he didn’t mention the forgotten town, the ghostly residents, and the graveyard as a playground.
Everywhere I looked, the faces of the people were more dead than alive. Even the clumps of grass in the already dead earth seemed hopeless. The town seemed more gray than the skies above, which for some reason was always cloudy.
No matter what kind of things my mother said, nothing can make this shabby town look any better.
We had moved in for three days before actually settling down. Those three days were spent ‘cleaning up’ the place. We swept the dust off the floors, knocked ou