Fingers in
the Mist
by O'Dell
Hutchison
Publication
date: February 24, 2015
Publisher:
Month9Books, LLC.
Sixteen-year-old Caitlyn Foster never believed in the legend of
the Redeemers. That was before the trees started to whisper her name. Before a
murder of crows attacked the town. Before she and her family came home to find
a bloody handprint on their front door, marking one of them as a sacrifice. As
Caitlyn’s friends are ripped from their homes, she knows it’s only a matter of
time before the Redeemers come for her. Caitlyn has the power to stop the
terror, but she’ll have to decide if she’s willing to sacrifice herself to save
those she loves.
I take a step toward him, and the wind rushes around me. A
deep rumbling comes from overhead, and I suddenly realize that what I thought
was thunder before isn’t thunder at all. A murder of crows, at least a hundred
or more, fly through the sky, the beating of their wings rolling in thunderous
waves. All activity in the square stops as all three-hundred-fifty-three
townsfolk look up at the sky.
The crows fly in a perfect circle over my head. It’s not
the town square they’re circling. It’s me.
One of the birds breaks formation and dive bombs the stage,
landing with a heavy thunk and an
explosion of feathers. Two more hit the ground, diving at people like miniature
missiles. The crows start to fall like rain. Some of them hit the ground and
fall silent, the power of their descent breaking their necks. People scream,
and I see several of them rushing for shelter in the nearby church, others
flocking to their cars as the remaining crows swoop between them. It’s like a
scene straight out of that old Alfred Hitchcock movie.
O’Dell was born in a small rural town in Idaho. There were no
Redeemers living there (that he knows of). After attending college in the
Pacific Northwest, he found his way to the Houston area. By day, he is a
Business Systems Analyst and at night you can either find him sitting at home,
dreaming of random super powers he wishes he had, or directing plays and
musicals at various theaters around Houston.
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