At the beginning of
the story, a mother bleeds to death during childbirth (The baby is Dickie-boy.)
and is buried under a crabapple. Her husband marries the Vamp, who then “cut Dickie-boy’s
head.” He is buried under the crabapple next to his mother. The Vamp poisons
her husband, and buries him under the crabapple, and abandons her daughter,
Maleen, and goes on the run. (She may be under the crabapple, too, which means that
she was killed by Maleen). Mareen is a queer girl who enjoys playing with piles
of Dickie-boy’s bones dug from under the crabapple. Mareen inherits the Vamp’s
house. Birds gather in the crabapple branches and eat the apples, and get
louder and bigger.
A very scary story. It does not move the reader’s heart, but just gives a
dark and spooky impression. There is nothing more to it. I don’t know why New
Yorker chose this story.
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