Sadie's Spirit - CB Samet (important of reading books txt) 📗

A person can only die once, and Sadie had met her quota for the day. Nevertheless, she screamed in terror when the headlights of the eighteen-wheeler blinded her. It drove straight through her without slowing.

After the truck passed, Sadie ran her palms over her body. Apparently, she could touch herself even if objects couldn’t touch her. She walked back into the woods towards her unmoving body.

She hadn’t expected her own death to happen so quickly, or when she was so young. She’d been in the prime of her life. She had certainly never believed she would stand, as a ghost, over her corpse as it lay crumpled beneath her on a moist bed of golden and auburn leaves. As she continued to stare in disbelief, she began to drift away from her body.

She floated up toward the starlit sky.

Am I heaven bound? If such a thing existed, will it be somewhere in the sky? Somewhere celestial?

Above the tree line, the setting sun shone in brilliant pinks and oranges. When she looked down at her body again, she saw her hooded attacker standing over her. She couldn’t see his face under the hoodie he wore. He appeared to be robbing her, rummaging through her over-the-shoulder sack and checking the pockets of her olive hiking pants. She felt violated, even though