Sunday, 19 May 2019, MorningPaxwood, Whatcom County, Washington, USAEyewitness: Kerry The thing about the phrase “butterflies in your stomach” is that, yes, it connects to a churning nervous feeling, something uncertain or nerve-wracking in the world, but it’s also that
This is one of those memories where emotion overshadows detail for all eyewitnesses present and willing to provide their perspective. Char, driven down the hallway by the massive black dog that had emerged from the cellar stairs. Me, in pursuit,
Saturday, 18 May 2019, EveningPaxwood, Whatcom County, Washington, USAEyewitness: Kerry The massive double doors parted silently, an open invitation. Weren’t haunted house doors supposed to creak like the voices of cursed souls? I stopped before I crossed the threshold and
Saturday, 18 May 2019, Afternoon Paxwood, Whatcom County, Washington, USA Eyewitness: Kerry I wanted to get inside Paxwood House, and Diana Cade, Paxwood Chronicle Editor, pulled through. All I had to do was ask, and she gave me the contact
Wednesday, 15 May 2019, EveningPaxwood, Whatcom County, Washington, USAEyewitness: Kerry Luella Paxwood’s voice caught me somewhere between the turn of a page, where her journal became less like reading and more like listening to an old friend. I absorbed her
Wednesday, 15 May 2019, AfternoonPaxwood, Whatcom County, Washington, USAEyewitness: Kerry I didn’t see Char for the entire school day. Our class schedules annoyingly didn’t line up, and even though we’d usually eat lunch together, she texted me to let me
Wednesday, 15 May 2019, Morning (Waxing Crescent)Paxwood, Whatcom County, Washington, USAEyewitness: Kerry Regardless of what Clover thinks about humanizing myself and everyone else in this story, let’s be honest: Getting grounded sucks, and none of us wants to relive that
Tuesday, 14 May 2019, Night (New Moon)Paxwood, Whatcom County, Washington, USAEyewitness: Kerry “Kerry Rhys-Hansen.” Officer Adrien Morgan tipped his head at us. He wore plaid and denim and he had no senior partner anywhere in sight, so he was definitely
Tuesday, 14 May 2019, Night (New Moon)Paxwood, Whatcom County, Washington, USAEyewitness: Kerry A dirt road illuminated by flashlight wasn’t the most romantic place to confess your love to the girl of your dreams, but there were worse. I’d planned this
Tuesday, May 18th, 2018, Late EveningMoon Phase: New MoonPaxwood, Whatcom County, Washington, USAEyewitness: Kerry Loose crumbling brick remnants shifted beneath my feet as I crossed the gap in the wall that surrounded Paxwood House. I shouldn’t have been there, but