The Vacant Lot

"The Vacant Lot" is a free short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman following the Townsend family, who relocate from their ancestral village to a suspiciously cheap Boston townhouse. From the very first Monday, their maid Cordelia glimpses something impossible in the empty lot next door — a shadow hanging laundry with no body attached. The disturbances escalate: phantom smells of cabbage, every mirror in the house shattering at once, a widow's crape veil appearing from nowhere, and a silent procession of white-faced figures dressed in black crossing the dining room.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.