The Rocking Horse Winner (Ghost Story)

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In my home town there is a story that goes about a neighbor that lived in the 18th century. According to the story, the young woman was called Judith and had two children Mark and Kenny. Her husband Jameson had died two days after Kenny the youngest son had been born. This happened after Jameson and his wife had an argument about her involvement with magic. He was found hanging from a rope in the table room having committed suicide (HYPERLINK "/authors/andy-kester-sawian/" \o "Andy Kester Sawian"Sawian, 2014). Judith had spelled him as she did not like the way Jameson scorned at her passion for black magic. The family was poor and most of the time they kept to themselves. The children however wanted to go and play with the rest of the children in the neighborhood. When she was not working at the local morgue, she attended to her flower garden, which was behind the house. She was very protective of the flowers and even the children were not allowed to step into the garden.
Two blocks from her house, there lived another family commonly known as the Jacksons. Mr. Jackson was a lawyer and was married to Melinda and they had one child called Drake. Melinda was church faithful and served at the local church most of her time since she did not have fulltime a job. When she was not at the church, she would bake cakes sell them to the neighbors, or just make them as gifts. Judith never liked the family even though she never really liked most people. The Jacksons were very cheerful and very popular in the neighborhood. From time to time Ken...