One Night

The Milk Bottles

One night, a storekeeper was about to close up when he noticed a customer still in the store. It was a young woman who wore a very filthy and torn up dress. He asked her if he could help her with something but she would never respond. She walked over to the counter and pointed to the refrigerator behind the counter. The man turned around and took out a milk bottle. She pointed to the fridge again and the man pulled out another milk bottle and set it on the counter. When the man turned around again to check to see if there were any milk bottles left, he turned around and she was gone.

The next night, when the storekeeper was about to close up, he noticed the same young, woman in the corner again. This time he looked at her more closely and noticed strains down her face from crying. He thought of asking her for her husband’s number so that he could work for him to earn money. The woman walked to the counter again and pointed at the milk bottles in the fridge. The man turned around and pulled out two milk bottles and set them on the counter. The storekeeper was a kind and generous man so he turned around to let the woman leave without paying.

The next night, he was determined to find out more about the woman. When the woman walked up to the counter and the man pulled out two milk bottles. When he started to ask the woman questions, the cash register flew across the room. And when he looked up the woman was gone. The next night after the woman left, he followed her. She walked across the street and went into the woods. She led him to the local cemetery. The man heard a noise. When he got into the cemetery it got louder and he realized what it was, a baby’s cry. It was coming from right underneath him. He was shocked and began to dig up the grave. He dug until he found a wooden coffin. When he opened it he found the young woman, a skeleton. And in the woman’s arms was a live baby. At the bottom of the coffin were the milk bottles she had stolen from the store.