She lay there for awhile until the eerie noises stopped. Kate put on Jim’s flannel shirt and went outside barefoot to investigate. The dim illumina...ion from the yellow bug light on the barn cast long dark shadows in the damp grass now that the moon and stars were hidden by the clouds. Kate watched as eerie shadows moved and skittered around the foundation of the old farm house, to vanish into the blackness. Kate was inexplicably drawn to the black maw in the earth. As she slowly walked. He wrapped the rubber band the kit contained around Juanita's arm, grimacing as he read that someone who has lost a large amount of blood can be hard to start and IV in. Junior figured God had to have been helping out a little, because he got good blood return on the first try. Following the instructions step by step he soon had an IV going. It was then a simple matter of hooking the plasma bag to the IV bag. Junior stepped back, thinking of what to do next.A groan from Juanita surprised him. I didn't have any fancy candlesticks or dried flowers so we did without a center piece.About four A.M. I rose and started the turkey on the spit with the reflector oven, cooking all sides as it turned. It was at least a twenty pound bird. I had set a glass pan under it to catch the drippings. I peeled five pounds of potatoes, quartered them and put them in a bowl holding salted water. That went into the refrigerator. I set the giblets simmering in a pot with bay leaves and peppercorns. At three. “Go on, girl. Tell the nice lady what I did to you.”Dog Meat beamed manically at me. “He made Juliet do it!” She wiggled her limbs, threw some sparkling dust, and giggled, “Every day, he made her choose which limb I would lose. Then he’d make her cut it off me with a blunt saw!” She laughed again, but it sounded like a scream, “Then she would feed it to Ginger in front of me, so that I would know my place!” Her smile was like a death-grimace, “I’m Dog Meat! That’s my name! Woof, woof,.