Rings on her Fingers

Rose Davis had been in a deep coma for over a month when the doctor declared her dead. She obviously wasn't getting up again. She was buried on a temperate summer day in a small cemetery that lay only about a mile from her home. Later that night, a grave robber, armed to the bone with a shovel and a flashlight, began to dig her up. The earth was still loose ( seeing to her recent burial), so the grave robber quickly reached the coffin and opened it up. His hunch was right—Rose had been buried wearing two very valuable rings when she dies: a diamond wedding ring and another adorned with a magnificent garnet.

The grave robber knelt down, dragging all of his sluggish weight with him, and reached inside the coffin to take the rings, but they were stuck on Rose’s fingers. He decided that the only way to get them was to cut off her fingers (it isn't like that would do her any real harm). But, when he took out his knife and began to saw at the limp flesh with the blade, Rose's fingers began to bleed and her body began to twitch suddenly. Then, she sat up! Absolutely terrified, the thief scrambled to his feet, accidentally breaking his flashlight in the process.

In the dark, the robber could hear Rose rise again from her grave. The thief stood absolutely frozen, clutching the blade tightly in his hand. On seeing him there, Rose covered herself with her shroud and asked, “Who are you?” Hearing the supposed “corpse” speak, the grave robber ran. Rose shrugged lazily and continued walking, not even bothering to look back. Seized by bitter fear and all-encompassing confusion, the thief fled in the wrong direction and fell headfirst into the open grave and onto his own knife in a more bitter ending than he expected and Rose just walked home.