5 Minute Fiction: Empty Graves
If you look at the ground in the desert long enough, you’ll find a body. Whether it’ll belong to the kind of animal with hands or the kind with paws is anybody’s guess. This 5-minute short story is based on an empty grave I found in the Mohave Desert years ago. It wasn’t just a cross: there are loads of those, and most of them are memorials instead of graves. This one was a cross with a mound of dirt just the right size to cover a person, laid carefully with stones to keep animals from digging it up. It was in a remote area where five women had disappeared, and were rumored to have joined a cult whose deserted buildings were also located nearby. Their bodies were never found, and they were never heard from again. For that reason,... Read More
