Wedding Dress

I married a man I loved very much and gave birth to a daughter a year later. It so happened that I needed money, so I decided to sell my wedding dress. I posted an ad, and soon two women came to us and asked me to show them my wedding dress. For some reason, these women were wearing black, and this made me feel a little uneasy. Nevertheless, I showed them my dress anyway. Apparently, the size was right, and the dress itself was very beautiful. They said they were buying my wedding dress, then one of the women asked if I still had my wedding shoes. I also brought them the shoes (I didn't wear them because of the high heels). Basically, they bought everything I wore at the wedding: the dress, the veil, the gloves, and the shoes. While stuffing everything into her bag, the woman quietly said to another woman—she must have thought I couldn't hear, but I have very good hearing: "Well, now at least we'll bury her properly." Her words sent a chill through me, but I didn't take my things and generally kept silent, as I desperately needed the money at that moment. Then I learned that there was a funeral on the next street for an eighteen-year-old girl who, judging by the description, was buried in my wedding dress.

Some time after the funeral, I began seeing a young, dark-haired girl in my wedding dress in my dreams, chasing me. She didn't say anything, only tore off her clothes—the veil, the shoes, the dress itself—and tried to put them on me, as if wanting to give them all back to me. I ran as fast as I could, but in other dreams she still managed to dress me in my former wedding clothes, which she had taken off herself. That same month, I began experiencing severe pain. I went for a checkup and discovered a rapidly growing tumor in my throat. The doctors said it was too late for surgery, and every single one of the old healers refused to treat me. One of them even blurted out, "You smell like dead meat already, I won't take you on, or we'll end up in the coffin together." And yesterday, I overheard my mother tell a friend that the doctors said I wouldn't last long...