Wild Card Wednesday

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Shopping Skulls in Bar Harbor

I had a girlfriend long ago—so long ago that most people I know now would never believe she existed. Sometimes I wonder if she did.

We were together for one summer. Just one. But it felt longer. And deeper. Like a season that didn’t belong in the calendar.

She had a dark side. Not the kind that announces itself. She didn’t wear black or speak in riddles. Her dark side lived quietly behind her eyes, like something patient. Something waiting. I only noticed it when she thought I wasn’t watching.

If that summer had been filmed, no one would have believed it. Too many coincidences. Too many moments where the air itself seemed to pause, like the world was listening. I wouldn’t have believed it either – even though I was there.

One weekend we went to Bar Harbor, Maine. The town was clean and bright and full of harmless things: ice cream, postcards, children pulling their parents toward souvenir shops. That’s where we found the skulls.

A long table. A hundred human skulls carved from stone.

Not cute. Not decorative. They were too precise for that. Each one was different, as if copied from a real face that once knew hunger, fear, and breath. They didn’t look made. They looked remembered.

When we entered “J” stopped talking. She stood there for nearly an hour. Silent. Studying the skulls one by one. I watched. Some she lingered over, tracing the jawline, the empty eyes. Others she barely glanced at, as if rejecting them. Watching her, I had the strange thought that she wasn’t choosing a skull. It was like the skulls were choosing her.

I wanted to buy her one. I really did. But I was a poor college kid, counting change for coffee, a physics student who believed in rules and measurements and a universe that made sense if you did the math.

That summer with “J” I questioned that belief.

There were things that didn’t line up. Conversations that seemed to predict events days later. Dreams that bled into waking moments. Times when “J” knew things she couldn’t possibly know – and didn’t explain them when asked.

At night, she sometimes stared out windows like she was waiting for someone who had no intention of arriving

At the end of summer, she left for New York in her maroon convertible Mustang. The car looked wrong somehow, too bright, too fast, like it didn’t belong in that quiet place. I watched it disappear down the road and felt something loosen inside my chest, something that had been pulled too tight for too long.

I think she was relieved. I know I was.

Some summers don’t end because they’re over. They end because they are finished with you.

And sometimes, when I see a skull – carved, painted, or real – I think of that table in Bar Harbor. I think of the way “J” smiled at the dead like old friends. And I wonder if that was the moment I should have understood who she really was. Or, what she was becoming.

Summary

Name: Skull Shopping in Bar Harbor

Style#: KW1395WCW

Skull: 18 karat yellow gold, 6.6 grams

Measurement: Skull is 10.5mm (7/16″) tall

Chain: 17-inch, 14 karat yellow gold, 5.3 grams

Estate Price…………….$2,385
Replacement Value…..$4,200

90% of this story is real.

To Purchase

This Wild Card Wednesday item cannot be bought online. You can email us with your interest to info@crossjewelers.com.