Growing up out in the middle of nowhere, I would often look out at the Garden near my home. It stood alone and did not come with a home and no caretaker that I ever saw. Our house the only one for miles. Strange lights so bright would sometimes dance in that garden. I was oddly unafraid and pulled towards it. I would ride my bike down the dirt path leading to the overgrown but lush garden, where I would hear whispers of many different voices. Throughout my childhood, I would write the whispers down in a diary I kept and many years later was able to piece together the stories from what I now call The Ghost Garden I never did, thankfully, meet the sole and apparently deceased gardener. Whispers said his name was Aaron, meaning high mountain, and he took the meaning of names quite seriously. So seriously in fact, that is how he chose his victims... and his garden was the most lush you have ever laid eyes on.

Liana- 2nd Victim This name meaning "Climb like vine"

The gardener, Aaron, chooses his victims by their given names. For his father named him Aaron, and that meant high mountain. He grew to be 7 feet tall after all. Liana met her end when Aaron strangled her until she passed out. She was then buried alive in the Ghost Garden where her soul will wander for all of eternity. Her body left to feed the flowering vines that would prosper, curling and wrapping themselves around the entire boarder of the garden.

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