" The Apparition " - Weird Tale by Radical Ron

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.