MADELAINE

by Milton C Sidegrinder.
December 1994

Episode 23.1-

I ran out of time at the shrine by the road.

I wanted to stay and see what the Virgin Mother would do next, because so far I hadn't been able to work out what she was up to. She was either dying or looking for a lost item, wringing her hands and looking all around in an orbit more moving than simple clockwork. I suppose I was waiting for her to either to fall over or to give up looking and read some of the notes that people had left for her. For nearly thirty hours, while the rain sank my boots