Diana Rowe Ship's Log

SHIP’S LOG, WRITINGS AT SEA

Short Story: "Maria," by Diana Rowe

EXCERPT of Maria FROM SHIP’S LOG, WRITINGS AT SEA,

When Maria was in her hiding place, she’d stretch her neck just high enough to look out the window. Across a courtyard overflowing with prickly cactus, she could always see the top of the cemetery. Inside the gap in the fence, the tips of white crosses rose. She’d never stepped inside, but when she rode the school bus, she passed the front gate. That was when she noticed all different sizes of rectangular boxes, mostly white, stacked on each other with a big cross on the top, like Christmas presents under the sky. Hanging near the crosses, multi-colored flowers picked from the island painted the starkness of the cemetery, making it feel more alive than lifeless.

September 2002
ISBN: 0-9716638-7-4

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