Well, I've been trying to get to the X-Files episode recaps but it hasn't been working out too well. Hopefully tomorrow. So, here's another chapter of Dead Dancing Women and later today I'll be posting a review of Cellar Door II: Words of Beauty, Tales of Terror. So, look for that a little later tonight!
Last Week:
Emily and DD went to question Emily's neighbor Harry and Emily was offered some Possum Stew.
Chapter 7:
Their next stop is 'Miz' Poet's friend, Joslyn and Joslyn's son Ernie. We learn that DD is driving very carefully because she's already wrecked one too many police cars. I stand by DD. Half the roads around here suck and are full of potholes so the roads probably wrecked DD's cars.
We get more descriptions of the woods (yay) and Emily accusing the birds flying south of desertion and cowardice. Emily seriously needs some help because she has a serious grudge against the local wildlife.
They arrive at Joslyn who is an uber-gardener so we get a description of her house and garden. Joslyn is just as thrilled to see them as Harry was ( meaning 'not much'). Emily complains that Joslyn doesn't look very friendly because she's not greeting them with a smile.
A. Nobody smiles when the police show up at their house
and
B. Her best friend's head was just found you insensitive twit!
Anywho, she also manages to put her down by saying she looks all of her seventy+ years and she's dressed sloppy. Again, her best friend's head was just found! Presumably the rest of her is dead so why should she be bright, perky and dressed to the nines?!
They go through the motions of telling Joslyn about 'Miz' Poet's head in the garbage can even though Emily suspects that Joslyn already knows. I don't know why she wouldn't because the woman has a phone, was friends with 'Miz' Poet and everyone else knows. But, whatever the reason, she acts like she doesn't know and gets a little faint. Emily is upset that they are talking through the screen door and thinks that DD's uniform might be making people leery. Emily figures that since she won't open the screen door then she's on her own with the shock.
DD tells her straight up who's head it was and Joslyn says she was hoping it wasn't true (or words to that effect). When she starts crying her son appears and tries to get them out of there, saying that their other friend, Flora Coy, had already told her. DD doesn't want to go and has a couple of questions but Emily wants them to leave as well.
DD presses for information about whether he saw anything by the road, anybody around acting strangely, about the Pastor who preached about them. Pretty typical questions. Emily keeps trying to pull DD away and they have a glare-off. I don't think Emily gets how investigations are done.
Ernie gives them the names of the other women in the group. He also says that it's a terrible thing and probably an accident or something. Because when you're old your head just falls right off, I guess.
Emily thinks to herself that neither mother nor son are very hospitality minded. She says that she understands their reluctance because they weren't the kind of people to have police and reporters all up in their faces every day. Which is a little weird being that she was just complaining that Joslyn wasn't very friendly or inviting.
End of Chapter
Wow, that one was kind of short. And pointless. The only new information was that Joslyn already knew. So, not really sure why it was such a shock to her.
So, yeah, I'll definitely be doing the review tonight. Hopefully, I'll finally get to the X-Files tomorrow.
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