Spiders!

I have two best friends, sisters a year apart, one my age and one younger. My mom never let me spend a night away from home but knew this family well. My dad and their dad commuted to their jobs together. Admittedly I really didn’t want to spend any nights away from home. The two sisters came to my farm and we decided to sleep in the hay mow. They had a flashlight…my undoing. I guess it was their plan to scare me and they did. I hated spiders, still do, and that night as we lay together, they scanned the ceiling of the barn to reveal huge and I mean HUGE hairy spiders that would move in the flashlight beam. Apparently all my playing in the hay barn, it never occurred to me before this that we kids were not the only residents. That was the first and last night spent in the barn.

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Sunday Confessionals – Forgotten tales