Red Rabbit

by Alex Grecian

“People around here have been looking forward to a hanging,” Jim said. “Peggy Ann went and organized a potluck for after.”

“Well, there’s the law and then there’s justice. They ain’t always the same thing.”

can’t imagine a woman running off with any man had a turkey feather in his hat.”

Being dead is a lonesome business most of the time.”

a kernel of dread began to grow in her like a kidney stone.

ghosts are simply people who became confused after their death. They don’t

Be afraid of real things, Mr Duncan. Real things can kill you.

“What you don’t know would fill a bucket,”

“Never think too much,” Benito said. “It leads to wrinkles and bad breath.”

had heard of such places, where sadness had leeched into the soil and evil had sprouted from it.

“Nothing in that direction, nothing in the other direction, everywhere there’s nothing, but still you people come. You hope to find something in the midst of all this nothingness, and that’s where I thrive, Mr Cassidy. I live in the hope.”