"The Green Ribbon"

One of my worst childhood traumas does not involve blood or ghosts. It involves a book of short stories.  It was beautiful afternoon and I decided to go to the library during recess. A thin children's book caught my eye:

I began reading the stories within it, when suddenly I came upon a story titles "The Green Ribbon" Hmmm sounds cool so I read it. Boy, it was one of the worse readings I had, and remember that I was around seven at that time.

To really understand what I went through, read it here: