Short a runner, we called out for a ghost man and a boy stepped out of the corn. It was the boy who’d disappeared years before we were born, sent into the corn to look for the ball his older brother had just hit into oblivion. His brother told the boy that if he didn’t go in after it, he wouldn’t get the turn at bat that he’d promised him. So he went into the corn in search of it. No one had seen exactly where it had gone, but they figured it wouldn’t be very hard to find, though the corn was trembling mockingly, as if to say
Ghost Man
Ghost Man
Ghost Man
Short a runner, we called out for a ghost man and a boy stepped out of the corn. It was the boy who’d disappeared years before we were born, sent into the corn to look for the ball his older brother had just hit into oblivion. His brother told the boy that if he didn’t go in after it, he wouldn’t get the turn at bat that he’d promised him. So he went into the corn in search of it. No one had seen exactly where it had gone, but they figured it wouldn’t be very hard to find, though the corn was trembling mockingly, as if to say