The Ghost Wife

<p><strong>You love me don't you Jonnie?</strong></p><p>The Industrial Revolution blackens the countryside.</p><p>Women and children hack at coal underground and drag loaded tubs like animals.</p><p><em> You'd better love me.</em></p><p>Rattle is a dirty pipe-smoking swearing collier-wench who dresses and swaggers like a boy.</p><p>She's in love with Jonathan Turner a young farmer and a prim God-fearing Methodist.</p><p> <em> I love you Jonnie. I'll never let you go.</em></p><p>Rattle is determined to have Jonathan.</p><p>But he's already married.</p><p>To a vengeful ghost.</p><p><strong>I love you to death.</strong></p><p> </p>