Page 5 - Publishing Inspiration Christmas Card 2022

The woman stood there briefly, staring at Laura in the
moonlight as if trying to determine who she was. Then she smiled
and spoke.
“Laura, what are you doing out here so late?”
She didn’t sound like a ghost, and Laura found her voice. “I
just finished work, and I am on my way home. The big question is,
what you are doing out here?”
“I had the strangest thing happen,” Rachel replied. “I was
having a strange dream. Then I woke up. Some men were trying to
cut my finger and pull my ring off. I sat up and realized I was down
in some hole in the ground. I started to say something to the men,
but they scampered away so fast that they didn’t even help me out of
the hole.”
Rachel began to tremble and almost fell. “I feel kind of faint.
Can you help me get home?”
Laura was trembling herself, but she took Rachel by the arm
and helped her walk. When they arrived at Rachel’s house, her
husband and children were shocked to see her and slightly scared at
first. But everyone was soon overjoyed, realizing Rachel was very
much alive. Laura went to get the doctor.
The doctor checked Rachel thoroughly and said she must
have just been in a coma when she was buried. She had obviously
come out of it when the grave robbers cut her finger. He suggested
they get her some food. Laura helped the family prepare some soup,
which Rachel ate slowly, but with much gratitude.
Over the next few days, when she wasn’t working for the
wealthy family, Laura came to help cook and take care of Rachel.
Rachel’s husband was so overjoyed to have his wife back that he
decided to offer a reward to the grave robbers who had brought her
out of her coma. He even posted an ad about it in the paper.
But no one ever claimed it.

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