I warned them. The book stays locked in the attic for a good reason.

That attic had gathered dust for three generations, weakening the wood and strings of the instruments.

I warned my sons not to play those haunting melodies, not to summon those ghosts, but they did it anyway.

Zack Smith is a Senior English Major at Salem State University. He has been published in the Dead River Review. Zack is an aspiring Book Editor who writes creatively in his spare time.