Face Down In The Grave – Thomas O

I’m not sure what I’d been expecting to get out of my conversation with the pastor, but whatever it was, I hadn’t gotten it. I put my reservations aside and knocked three times on the door. Eldon let me in with a pleasant greeting and I switched places with him. I was immediately greeted by a horrible sight. This time, instead of a small, wrinkled being, a monstrous form stood in front of me in full demon regalia—warts all over its skin, horns coming from its head, misshapen joints, jagged teeth.

The thing must’ve stood seven feet tall. It was almost as if the demon was going intentionally overboard in its attempt to unsettle me, and it worked. I thought back to what I was told in training to help calm myself—The demon cannot physically harm you while you’re in the room. I sat on the chair and looked to the ground. The demon resumed its staring game from the night before, but this time I could feel it penetrating my thoughts.

“You brought a book with you tonight. Are you going to read me some stories?” it asked with a baritone voice. I’d brought a small bible with me, stuffed into my pants pocket. It had belonged to my father. “Did you really think that would help you?” the demon asked.

It moved closer, with its face only inches from mine. Its breath smelled of rotten fish. “The Bible is one of my favorite books. Will you read it to me?” My hands clenched together until my knuckles were white. The demon chuckled. “You brought that book because you believe it will give you protection, and now that I ask you to read it to me, you remain silent? You must not have much faith after all.”

I reached into my pocket, pulled the Bible out, and opened it to the New Testament. “No. The Old Testament is far more interesting. Read 2 Kings 2:23,” the demon said. I ignore the request and started reading the verse I wanted, “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God…” “Read me what I asked for,” the demon interrupted. “Or are you afraid that there are certain parts of the Bible that won’t hold up?”

I paused, then flipped to the Old Testament and read the requested passage. “Elisha left Jericho to go to Bethel, and on the way some boys came out of a town and made fun of him. ‘Get out of here, baldy!’ they shouted. Elisha turned around, glared at them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys to pieces…”

my voice trailed off.

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“It will happen early,” Gabriella had promised me. “You’ll be able to spend most of the day with him.” I was shaky—nervous. What if he doesn’t remember me? What if something goes wrong? But what could go wrong? I’d done my part—paid for this day in blood, and I had been assured that everything would work out smoothly.

Even though he had passed away when he was five, he would be coming back to me from a time when he was a three-year-old. What did he like to do at that age? The park, the zoo, the merry-go-round? Actually, all of those if I remembered correctly. I stayed in my bedroom as instructed. “Listen for him,” I’d been told. “You’ll hear him waking up in his bed. He’ll call to you.”

His bedroom, which had been stripped bare in the years after his death, had been hurriedly slapped back together as best as I could remember. His toddler bed was pulled from the garage rafters, his nightstand and lamp reclaimed from a dusty corner of the attic, and some toys were retrieved from the moth-eaten boxes in the hall closet. As the first morning rays of sunlight poked their way through the crack between the curtains, I heard a small body tossing and turning in the other room.

I held my breath. “Daddy? Mommy?” I bolted from my bed, almost tripping over my own feet in my haste to get to his bedroom. And there he was—real. His yawn turned into a smile as he saw me enter the room. Without hesitating, I grabbed him in a big bear hug. “Good morning, Daddy.”

His voice sounded so young, so cute. Fredrick was exactly as I remembered him. His voice wavered a bit as he glanced around the room. “Hey where’s Bossy at?” Bossy? I paused in thought for a second. “Ohhh, Bossy Bear…

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