Cemetery of the Living Dead
Drac Von Stoller
Copyright 2011 by: Drac Von Stoller
Smashwords
Edition
Johnny was Gravendale's grave digger and embalmer
who loved his job, especially picking a special spot that he thought
the deceased would be proud to be buried at. Johnny was a little
weird because during the embalming process, he would sit beside the
cold slab the body was lying on, and as he was inserting the hose
into the deceased body to drain their blood, he would read stories to
them and talk to them as though they were still alive.
After
all the visiting relatives of the deceased were gone and Johnny
locked the cemetery gate, he would go inside his trailer that he
lived in at the cemetery, get his lantern and a book and sit down by
a grave of a recent deceased person and read stories to them. Johnny
thought the dead person could hear what he was saying more clearly by
not burying their casket so deep, but Johnny was unaware that he was
in for a big surprise for not burying the dead at the right depth.
Johnny took such good care of the dead he would make sure they were
dressed properly for their burial and polish the casket. Johnny
would even pose in pictures with the deceased to put in his photo
album. Sometimes Johnny would even dig up the bodies and sit
them up in their casket and talk to them about the stories he read to
them. Johnny didn't realize he was playing with fire for
disturbing their final resting place.
Whenever a loved one
would visit their dead they would notice the grave would look freshly
dug but Johnny would say that he liked to keep the ground fresh with
no weeds or grass on top. The loved ones just brushed it off as
Johnny really cares for the dead. The tombstones were always clean
and shiny but if the loved ones really knew what Johnny was doing
with their loved one, Johnny would be in jail.
Johnny
continued his readings to the dead until the dead had all they could
take and the next day happened to be Friday the thirteenth and what a
good day for the dead to seek revenge on Johnny. As Johnny was
reading a story to one of the dead. The dead started rising up from
their graves and walking towards one of the coffins Johnny was lying
in as he read his story to the dead as he always did a hundred
times before. This was going to be Johnny's last story he would read
to the dead. Hundred's of the dead surrounded the coffin Johnny was
lying in and the dead grabbed Johnny out of the coffin and started
pulling every limb from his body. Johnny was saying to the dead, how
could you do this to me I took such great care of you all and this is
the thanks you give me. The dead just kept pulling and tugging at his
limbs until they broke apart one by one until Johnny was dead along
with his stories.
The next morning all the caskets were above
the ground with rotting corpses hanging out of their coffins and
Johnny's body parts were scattered all over the cemetery. The police
found Johnny’s book with blood splatters on the pages of his book
that he loved to read to the dead. The police were also baffled at
how all the caskets were above the ground and why Johnny's body was
torn to shreds. There was no explanation of how all the caskets in
the cemetery were above the ground and why Johnny's body was ripped
to shreds. So there was no further investigation into Johnny's death
and the casket's above the ground. The case was ruled as
unexplainable and put into the cold case files forever.