Coming to Terms
I’m told in years past a group of elders in New Zealand built their own coffins to come to terms with their eventual deaths. Something about sawing, sanding, and nailing the coffins together soothed their minds. And when at last they were laid to rest their community gathered in wonder. Here were those that met the Reaper eye to eye and didn’t blink. Afterward, their families and friends walked away with plans to build coffins of their own.
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Will Mayo is the author of Dreams Of Mongolia, Hoodoo Voodoo, The Shells Encasing Our Nothingness, Bone Talking, and other books of the extraordinary. He lives with his six-toed black cat in Frederick, Maryland, said by some to be the most haunted city in the state. Most of his writing is done between the hours of 3 a.m. and sunrise. He enjoys wordplay and strange tales, and hopes you do too.