They say the old Morgan house burnt on a night when the moon hung like a bloodied coin in the grey, suffocating sky. It was a structure of rotting timber and weeping stone, clinging to the edge of the hill like an unwanted memory.
On that dreadful evening, with the autumn air thick with the stench of pitch and dry rot, the righteous folk of the valley gathered to watch the culmination of their own malice.
They remembered the mockery of his trial. They recalled the crooked magistrate, the hysterical whispers of the village girls, and the false testimonies bought with tarnished silver.
They had cheered his condemnation with a feral, collective hunger, throwing jagged stones at his bent, bruised back as they dragged him through the mud towards the makeshift gallows erected in his own orchard. He had offered no resistance then, only a silent, piercing stare that made the bravest among them look away.
Ethan Campbell, natural born stand-up comedian who never made it any further from his toilet’s mirror, so he turned into writing fantasy and paranormal stories.
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