the Macedonia Hotel, Chapter 5
The Macedonia Hotel
A NANOWRIMO
Relay writing project
By the Wayne writers Guild
Completed July 2016
The Macedonia Hotel
(This fictional piece is the product of a relay writing project by the Wayne Writer’s Guild In honor of NANOWRIMO-2015. Any resemblance to real events, people, places, or things is a coincidence and neither intended nor implied to be real and accurate.)
I extend my thanks and gratitude to the contributors who shared their time and talents to make this NANOWRIMO Relay Writing Project possible.
The individual chapters are the intellectual property of the author.
Special thanks are extended to John Cieslinski for his generous use of the book store’s back room.
–Kate Chamberlin, Coordinating Editor
July 20, 2016
Wayne Writers Guild
Meets at 7:30pm – 9:00pm, on the 2nd and 4th. Tuesday of each month
Books, Etc. of Macedon, NY
John Cieslinski, Owner
78 W. Main ST. Macedon NY 14502
Phone 585-474-4116
chapter 5
The Crystal Dragon
By Alex Rea
The Macedonia Hotel is the best place to be if you want to hear tales about the yesteryear and the people that formerly dwelled in that location. The woman in room number eight, Mrs. Bonnie Black, was the original proprietress of the edifice. One can resolve that she stays around hoping for someone to restore the hotel to its early glory. She often said that the hotel was one of the best things to happen to the area.
In that location, with the Canal nearby, there is a great deal more story to add to the stories one might try. Not everyone is able to hear the stories, but to the ones that do they are unforgettable. tales are narrated by the spirits that inhabit the building and the surrounding regions. They are telling us about their lives and how life was way back when.
There is a young lady that sits in a rocking chair that has been seen rocking her baby, making sure no one can take her away. They died in the cold of a harsh winter, asleep in the chair. To this day some can still see the chair moving when no one is in it. Off of the upper balcony, some can see the gallows where many were hanged. Because the wrong person was put to death, none that was hung can successfully move on. The person who did the crimes, had gotten away, never to be caught.
The judge that had tried them had lost his mind completely and was put into an insane asylum. He passed half a dozen years in the mental institution and finally committed suicide. He returned to the hotel as the most familiar place from when he was alive.
If you can hear them talk about their stories, you hear the same theme: It was the judge. The Judge is the soul that performed all the crimes, that is the reason he lost his mind. The people he had condemn to death was for profit. They were forever telling him what was going to occur to him after he died. He did not believe them at all.
The best story though, is about two women often seen in the great room having tea. These women were iconic to the area as they both had wealthy husbands and were a contributing influence to the Palmyra- Macedon area. They are Bonnie Black, the original owner of the Hotel and Mrs. Barbara Blocket, lady of the famous Blocket House in Palmyra. When these ladies get together for tea in their dresses and gloves, it is a sight to see. Mrs. Blocket often can be heard talking about how her house has undergone many changes throughout the years. The last time they were spotted having tea, they were speaking about the people that live in or utilize the buildings that used to be theirs. Mrs. Blocket smiles at the music that is being put back into her place. Her house is being filled with love and light as the Spark Of her former church’s Congregation has given the old house life again. She is delighted with the direction they are conducting themselves within her sacred space and are using up the riff-raff off the streets by spreading the love and light into the community the way that she used to. The dead are no longer in the streets.
The lady of the Hotel says to Mrs. Blocket, that they have done the same for her space in Macedon as well.
They walk through the Butterfly Trail to see what has been done to clean the place up. It was a place to picnic by the water and see the boats go through the channels and Canal Locks. I know that when I hear their stories, I am going back through time right there with them.
Others at the Hotel are from all walks of life. There’s some good and some bad. They are the ones to watch out for as they can drain every single drop of energy from your body to manifest themselves. One of them is named Jason.
Jason, his wife and child, and his wife’s sister all shared a room that was barely big enough for even one individual. Jason had cancer while he was still alive. They went from room to room doing drugs with other past tenants. They consume the life force out of people without them knowing. This brought out the big guns rather recently when one traveler stopped in. This mortal, not knowing their birthright or where he hailed from was unbeknownst to him and others, very powerful in magic.
He was losing time from being drained by Jason. When it was found out, a stronger force was sent in to protect him. This would have been to be considered an unlikely love story, considering that both bodies were male. But the force that was sent in has many people and spirits within the individual physical structure.
One being from 1890, she is very beautiful, with period dress and gloves of white. It was explained that a woman from that time period could not let her ankles be seen or marriage was a must by the man who had seen them.
The courting started slow at first, and then Sir Robert regained his memory, from another life that he had been. The woman was none other than his darling wife Maria, just as he had remembered her. Sir Robert has experienced many lives because he is a Dragon in human form and because the dragons are all but gone from this world, a very special gift was bestowed upon Maria. She had been granted the gift of becoming a Crystal Dragon.
Author Bio:
Alexander Rea is a 50-year-old man. He was born in Chambersburg, PA. Grew up in Moss Point, MS for part of his life, then moved to Shippensburg, PA. Presently, he lives in NY. In a master’s program for alternative medicine. He writes short stories to relax.
magicwillow365@gmail.com
Wayne Writers Guild
Meets at 7:30pm – 9:00pm, on the 2nd and 4th. Tuesday of each month
Books, Etc. of Macedon, NY
John Cieslinski, Owner
78 W. Main ST. Macedon NY 14502
Phone 585-474-4116