Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Little Abode for Children - Chapter 5

The Ghost

Keith and Melissa were living with Mrs. Owen. Mrs. Owen used to teach ballet at her own studio at Kenosha downtown. She was also a member of Kenosha Knitting Circle.

Keith was assigned a project by his History teacher about industries of Kenosha before the Second World War. Mrs. Owen had many books about dances, arts and culture in her personal collection, but those were of no help to Keith.

Social distancing and lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak shortened the library hours since the day after Ms. LeRoy’s gown appeared in the library. The library’s digital repository was not much open to the children under eighteen. Mrs. Henkel or the librarian, Mrs. Atkins, like earlier, could no longer override the VPN access password for the children, if they thought fit. Borrowing Kindle, for accessing digital resources, seemed impossible, too.

After much discussion, Keith and Melissa found themselves desperate to access the library for at least one half of a day. They cooked a plan.

They entered the library during its opening hours, then sneaked into the library reference section, remained hidden there till the library was closed for the public and all the staff left. They had planned to surrender to the janitor at night, making an apology for being locked inside, reasoning that they were working in rapt attention oblivious of the library closing time, and expressing surprises for not being noticed by the library staff before closing of the library.

They were almost done by late evening. Their ears were up to hear the janitor entering the library. Their work was being disrupted intermittently by lights being turned off by the motion sensors. To keep them on, Melissa was strolling around the table where Keith was working.

She saw a woman roaming in the history section of the library. She whispered to Keith. Together they approached the history section to get a closer peek at her. The lights along their path were turning on as they proceeded.

Suddenly, all the lights turned off, altogether. Moving to and fro, Keith and Melissa were confirmed that the motion sensors had stopped working. Trapped in darkness, they lost direction.

They had heard the rumor that Ms. LeRoy could have died inside the library and her ghost could have remained confined thereof. Especially, many guessed that her ghost had hung the gown in the classic literature section.

The ghost hypothesis sparked first into Keith’s mind. He muttered it to Melissa. They turned numb in horror. Then, using flashlights of cell phones, they crawled to an emergency exit.

As soon as their feet touched the grounds of Library Park, they started running towards the nearest streetlights. As they opened the emergency exit, the library’s electronic security system raised the alarm.

Nathan heard the alarm. He was in Library Park, measuring the times required to reach any of the drivable roads around Library Park from the library building. He ran towards the library building to check for break ins before patrol cars appeared. Keith and Melissa ran into him.

He took them to a nearby Waffle House. After sipping some hot chocolate, Melissa got her colors back. Keith was still panting. By and by, they spilled their plan to Nathan and how it went sideways.

Nathan noted, “Keith and Melissa were escaping a ghost in the library! Must pay a visit to this ghost.”

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Monday, April 15, 2024

Little Abode for Children - Chapter 4

The Children

The children were mostly from Chicago. A few of them were from Milwaukee. The railroads carried them to Kenosha, the picturesque town by the lake Michigan.

Coming from North or South, their stories were almost the same. All of them either escaped a terrible home or fled from a dangerous neighborhood. Many of them had at least one parent in jail. Many of them used to be beaten to bleed either by a harsh stepparent, or by an aggressive stepsibling, or by a drug addict half sibling, or by a gang banger cousin. Some escaped schools as gangs started using schools for gang initiation.

Many of them found a safe home with Mrs. Kirk and other members of Kenosha Knitting Circle, like Teressa’s Aunt Mary. They found hope in learning and joy in living at gracious foster homes. For them, the library was their gateway to the universe of knowledge.

After Teressa’s disappearance, they used to gather at the library to help each other learn. It was their way of paying respect to Teressa.

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Sunday, April 14, 2024

Little Abode for Children - Chapter 3

The Gala

The gala was for raising funds for building up a shelter for the street children. Kenosha did not yet have any.

City’s older generation had always been generous to these children. They used to take these children for fostering. One among the foster parents was Mrs. Kirk.

Mrs. Kirk used to teach History at Kenosha Middle School. She retired a few years ago. A year ago, she suffered from her first heart attack. It shook her thoughts about the children she used to look after. Since then she started thinking of building a home for street kids. After all, these children could never be sent back. She expressed this concern of her to her friends at Kenosha Knitting Circle.

Mrs. Mary Munro was in the circle. She was Teressa’s grand aunt. She knew about Teressa’s involvement and effort with the children. She shared, “My grandniece, Teressa, runs a center for the street kids. Off course with help and support from her friends and family. She, too, needs an expansion. Can we talk to her?”

Hence, Teressa with Kenosha Knitting Circle arranged a fundraiser event for expansion of Little Abode for Children. The library supported the event by hosting the gala on the first floor of the library building.

The gala appeared to be quite a success. It helped gather a million dollar in contribution. Kenosha Undergarment Factory, a leading global manufacturer of underwear, donated one of their abandoned warehouses to build a kitchen and shelter for rescued street children.

Nathan scribbled a question in his notebook, “Who’d be against such benevolent endeavors and enthusiasts?”

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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Little Abode for Children - Chapter 2

Teressa LeRoy

Teressa used to live alone. She was one of the student coordinators of the library. She did not show up for work on the day after the gala. Nor did she call in sick. It was very unlikely of her.

Mrs. Henkel, Teressa’s supervisor, tried to call her when she remained absent at work another day consecutively. Mrs. Henkel’s calls ended up repeatedly at voice mail. Worried, Mrs. Henkel, on the day after, while coming to work, stopped by Teressa’s apartment to check on her. It was locked and nobody answered her knock on the door. Mrs. Henkel reported the matter to the police. That day during the afternoon, Detective Nathan Adams showed up in the library. He asked Mrs. Henkel a lot of questions.

Mrs. Henkel was all praise for Teressa. According to Mrs. Henkel, Teressa was a dedicated library worker. She brought up neighborhood children to the library for several summer projects and events. These children were not only from wealthy and working-class households of the neighborhood, but also from the streets around the Metra Station, Simmons Park, Harbor Park and all other public places of the city.

Nathan was compelled to talk to the children. The children were very depressed. They were missing Teressa very much. She had not only brought them to the library, but also she helped them with their homework, school projects and other studies. Especially to the street kids, she was a tutor and a mentor. Apparently, Teressa was only loved and admired; she had no enemy.

After a day of toil, Nathan had no clue about the disappearance of Teressa Leroy. So, he started revisiting his notes.

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Friday, April 12, 2024

Little Abode for Children - Chapter 1

The Library

Kenosha public library was the milieu of the people from all hues of life. It harbored homeless people, newly arrived at the town along with the well-to-do residents of its older neighborhoods around the library and library park. The older patrons of the library used to seek entertainment and socializing opportunities at the library. The other group used the library as an information and learning hub.

It was an early spring evening. The neoclassical architecture of the library building seemed scintillating from bright lights reflected from grasses, sprouting leaves and inflorescence of large trees of the surrounding rectangular park, known as Library Park. Inside, it was full of different activity groups occupying different corners. Toddlers were busy with stories of flowers and insects. By this group was a cluster of members from Kenosha Knitting Circle, comprising grown and elderly men and women. The toddlers were keener on chasing bright and colorful balls of woolen yarns than giving an ear to the stories.

Middle and high school students were thronging here and there. Some were volunteering with the library. Their friends were just hanging around them. Some were doing their projects very seriously, scattered mostly around the reference section, history, geography science and literature sections.

Tanya and Asia screamed suddenly. They were standing in between the aisles of classic literature. Their friends rushed to them. They also screamed. Lisa, that evening’s student coordinator for the library, rushed to the screaming youngsters. She, too, shrieked. Her supervisor Mrs. Henkel was with the Knitting Circle. She went to the aisles of screams. Then, she called Detective Nathan Adams of Kenosha Police Department. Detective Adams was working alone because half of the Police Department was in quarantine then. His partner belonged to that half.

By the time Detective Adams arrived at the library, both the groups of haves and have-nots gathered around the classic literature section. The older group was occupied appeasing the young ones. Teressa LeRoy’s gown startled everybody. The gown was hanging from the shelves of the classics in the literature section. Teressa wore it on the night of the gala. Nobody had seen her after that night.

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Thursday, April 11, 2024

Little Abode for Children - Praises

Here are some kind words about Little Abode for Children.

"Little Abode for Children" is Book 1 of the American Small Town Mysteries series, written by Sanhita Mukherjee …. had an interesting storyline and some pretty great detective and police characters, as well a child characters. Little Abode for Children is the program started at a library by a librarian named Teressa for children who were either homeless, abused, or preyed upon by gang members. The lead detective, Nathan, reminded me of a 1940s/1950s Noir book/movie character. His boss, Captain Brown is a woman, because the text says "she". I liked Captain Brown's character because she was straight forward with her questions to the detective. I also liked the little children, Jack and Melissa.

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