Mission Accomplished Men were wearing hooded cloaks and mumbling in Latin, their heads bowed in prayer. One of the men pushed back his hood. It was Mason Alderhut.  One of the other men pushed a small, mangy boy wearing rags for clothes before Alderhut. The boy stumbled and fell, his hands trussed behind him with […]

The Devil’s Combe Despite Evan’s barely coherent directions, Sam found the Devil’s Combe and the section of electrified fence Evan and Dale had bypassed with jumper cables. He crawled under and began hacking his way through the overgrowth, down into a deep hollow.  Fog rolled into the hollow off the Atlantic marine layer and billowed out […]

Penitentia It was early evening in Danforth Putnam, and all was quiet outside Cabot House, one of the freshmen girl dorms. A hedge in its empty courtyard began to shudder and from it emitted the sound of gnashing. This was Bernard, feeding. He lifted his face to the moonlight which slid glossily across the sticky […]

Evan Sam went to the student jobs office and looked up Dale’s work service record. He’d spent a lot of time doing janitorial assignments but had also logged a fair amount of time landscaping. His supervisor during those occasions was a groundskeeper named Evan Stahl. With the shadows lengthening, Sam picked his way through the […]