Weird Tale by Radical Ron

 The three young girls were always together.  Sammy and Laurie were

    twins,age 7  and the youngest always with a winning smile, Victoria,

    just turned 5 . Fittingly her birthday was on Valentine's Day.

        They were so charming , thought Old Jake who made a living doing

    odd jobs in Pawtuxet  Village. Today he was cleaning up the sidewalk

    in front of the Old Stone Bank. The girls, his sweethearts, often

    stopped to chat with him, a lonely middle aged man.

        This morning the three were on their way to St.Paul's Catholic

    School. To get there they usually cut across a wooded area by the dark

    waters of the river that flowed near Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, an old

    abandoned and some say haunted dance hall. In the past the eerie

    surroundings of the dance  hall had been the scene of number of rape

    murders.

        Old  Jake who was only 50 worried about them all time. " Why couldn't

    they get a ride to school like the others? " he asked. He knew the

    father was a drunk and the mother worked in  the laundry. " Life is

    unjust ", thought Jake.

           This morning the girls startled him with a very  strange

    tale: the  Virgin Mary had appeared to them yesterday morning in the

    woods.It was a brilliantly sunny late  September day. So maybe that

    explained the " ball of fire ".

           The Virgin spoke to them -of all things - about the BLOOD OF THE

    LAMB ." The holy sacrifice of the mass was really the BLOOD  OF THE LAMB, "

    she said.

        The heavenly visitor told them just where to meet her this morning

    before they attended mass.

            The three sisters, Jake's sweethearts, were found dead   in

    the Fay Field woods that afternoon by  classmates and Sister Veronica.

    Their hearts had been cut out  , their throats slit, and their blood

    poured into a strange  copper bowl with ancient Greek designs on it.