Never Rest, Toddy

44. On That Dark Night – Carol Beach York

A very short story that’s about how being reincarnated does not necessarily make you feel very good with quite a few mentions of “Three Blind Mice” and no research scene, despite the girls walking directly past the public library on their way to the cemetery…

Julie and Allison usually hang out after Allison takes summer school Spanish, but one day, Julie is morosely playing “Three Blind Mice” and with some prompting, launches into how she went to Greenbridge with her mom and knows she used to live there and something about Toddy and how no one can scold Toddy, even though Toddy did something rude and/or terrible in the past to little girl-Julie.

Julie and Allison go to Greenbridge and wander around and end up in the cemetery and…never look at any of the names on the graves to see if Julie’s past life kid is in there. I do not understand this urge to find things out without looking at anything like those graves they visited twice or the local newspapers for decades ago, a child death accident would totally have made the paper. But these are curious teens who just want to wander around and sort of get into things, but not totally commit. They’re just, like, feeling things, for reasons. Then the story ends with Allison realizing she is also reincarnated, also with very little information.

 

Horace, as a rational pig, would have been to that library and looked at all the tombstones before just making assumptions about his reincarnation.

 

Speaking of Horace as a rational piggie, here he is doing science as Horace-Ravi. It’s a very rational sweater vest he has on there.
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