James A. Moore

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Serenity Falls

James A. Moore

Welcome to Serenity Falls; make yourself at home.

The people here are friendly enough and certainly glad to make your acquaintance…so long as you don’t ask too many questions about their pasts or about the town. They’ve got secrets, you see, like most small towns do. And they have their share of troubles as well…

Oh, the town is doing better since the quarry reopened, bringing rebirth to Serenity and prosperity to people who’d almost given up hope; and the new folk coming around, drawn by the promise of financial success, seem pleasant enough for the most part. But there’s that poor man who got himself torn apart by a pack of feral hunting dogs, and the girl who says her boyfriend is the one who took her out into the woods and did his best to kill her. There are all the children who’ve disappeared, and others who’ve begun acting very strangely. And there’s the problem at the cemetery, where somebody has been tearing up the peaceful surroundings and dragging the dead from what was supposed to be there final resting places. Those sorts of incidents leave the locals a…

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