The Piper's Graveyard

A mysterious evil haunts a small town’s radio waves.

Cessy returns home to search for her missing sister.

She finds a half-abandoned town under siege by unexplainable threats. Attics and crawlspaces are stretch into endless tunnels. Corpses turn up riddled with holes—holes that slither through flesh like insectile parasites. It all leads deep into the abandoned coal mine.

Cessy’s sister disappeared while investigating the vengeful voice on the radio. To find her, Cessy will have to unravel the dark mystery wriggling up from the coal mine.

©2020 Benjamin Farthing (P)2023 Benjamin Farthing

Wait…what???

How does the title fit in with the story? It doesn’t!!

It started out great; I was really into it!! But then it started going downhill a bit. If I heard “vermin,” or “maple table,” or Cessys annoying constant self-pity…if only, if only, if only…I think my head would explode.

I love unusual creature features, so this unique story really appealed to me and had great potential, but it just got so weird w/o good writing to make you actually feel what the characters were experiencing. I felt like an outsider looking in, not feeling a part of the story. So it was just a strange story. SPOILER: like a person walking thru jello.

And as the weirdness of this story dragged on, I couldn’t wait for it to end. And end it did….poorly.
Again, great start, middle repetitious, ending poor.