Missing May
Fall 1992 FictionMay and Ob pack up the small girl, named Summer, and take her to live in their trailer in Deep Water, West Virginia. They are blissfully happy for six years; then Summer and Ob are devastated by May's unexpected death. The girl senses Ob is in danger of dying of grief. She doesn't know how to help; she's back on her own and she's numb. When an eccentric classmate, Cletus Underwood, starts hanging around, Summer notices that Ob brightens up in his company. Cletus tells Ob about a Charleston psychic, Rev. Miriam B. Conklin "Medium at Large", who contacts the dead. The three go off in Ob's rusty Valiant to find her, and possibly "talk to" May. The plan fails. They lose hope, and find one another. "And then a big wind came and set everything free."
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