What Kind of Curse?
5 min readApr 16, 2024
End of May, the days felt like summer, the evenings lingered in Western Pennsylvania, not too far from Ohio, a mile or two. Rufus Mackey purchased a new Overland a few days earlier and felt pretty good about himself. His second wife died in January, left him with a son, Hudson, ten years old from his first marriage. Death happened so often, he grieved, but knew he had to carry on. He had his eye on Flossie, a cousin on his mom’s side. He asked her…