Calls From the Hereafter

Cecil Ray Rimehouse were real sorry when his wife, Mable died last year. At least that's the show what he put on. We all knowed how bad he were to her during all the years they was together. The sheriff were called out many times to stop him from beating on her. And he drank bad, run around with all kinds of womens and spent a lot of money on them what could have bought Mable a new stove, washer/dryer, and other things to make her life better. But Mable would not leave him. Her sister Flojean told my wife one time that Mable were sure the change in Cecil Ray's life were just around the corner. But the day she died they had to hunt him down and found out he were lying in the bed of Darling Smitherson whose husband were off working on a oil rig. Now a strange thing about Mable were she were afraid of being buried alive. She never knowed nothing about embalming or nothing like that, so she insisted on being buried with her cell phone right in her left hand. She were right handed and wanted to make it easy to dial, doncha know? And they did, except her sister, Flojean, while taking her final peek in the coffin retrieved the phone and taken it home with her. Over the last months, she made it a point of calling Cecil Ray all hours of the night. At first he did not answer but soon give in to curiosity and punched in to accept the call. Flojean let out a moan what would have made a horror moviemaker proud. Now we didn't know all this were going on 'cause Flojean knowed around here somebody would spill the beans and mess up her revenge against Cecil Ray. When Cecil Ray stopped paying the bill, Flojean went down and talked the young girl at the phone place to keep it going. She paid up for a year. Cecil Ray changed his phone number, but Flojean were full of business and found it out. After Cecil Ray had taken his phone and buried it out in the pasture, Flojean come clean with her card playing group. She said toward the end Cecil Ray were crying and telling Mable how much he loved her and missed her. He even started calling up his wife hisself. Finally, Flojean were tired of it all and in a real spooky voice told Cecil Ray that he should move his bed out to the cemetery so they could sleep together once again. That's when he buried the phone.
Flojean said that were enough for her.