American Brother
370 Words
"Don't...Look...Twice"
Tabby & Clarissa grew up different, they didn't know why, it had always been that way...
They very rarely spoke, they very rarely smiled, but they loved to watch people...It made everyone around them uneasy...
Most of the time, at recess they would stand side by side watching the trains pass by...
The little one school they attended was about 300 feet away from Illinois Central Railroad tracks...
Its 1863, and the Civil War is raging...Everyday trains would pass by carrying troops...
The twin girls would stare at the trains, in a trance like state...it was unnerving to the people watching the twins...
Many times the soldiers on the trains would wave at the children at the school, but once did the twins ever wave back...
Word spread locally about these strange twin girls, of course the tales grew wilder, the more they were told...
One day at the school, everyone heard a loud explosion out by the railroad tracks...somehow the train had derailed...
It was a gruesome scene...everyone in the school went outside, the teacher tried to keep the children inside, but it was impossible now...
Once outside the twin girls started running towards the train...
That day a legend was born...the twin girls together pulled 28 soldiers from the c*****e of the wreck...
But in their 29th attempt...the twin girls lost their lives to the c*****e of the train wreck...
Many people over the years have spotted the twin girls, or claimed they spotted them...
In life the twins barely made a peep...but along this stretch of train tracks...people hear two young girls singing, but for the people that are listening, the words are unintelligible...
Today the train tracks are long gone, but this is now a walking trail...
The old school the twins attended is still there...a private residence now...
If you decide to walk this stretch...look straight ahead...if you do look up...do it only once...
If you look the second time...what you might see...you wont wanna see...
Something lurks in the trees above the trail...it is deceptively decrepit...
It waits...It watches...
On the ground the twins watch & wait as well...
But that's another story...another day in 1989!!!
"This Is Mystical Tale...With Elements Of Non-Fiction"
- Writer
