The Gauthier Farmhouse, on the Outskirts of a Small French Town Northwest of Paris, 1918:
The root cellar was dark and cramped. It was little more than a glorified hole in the ground, with earthen walls supported by a wooden lattice and a heavy wood trap door atop. Slivers of light flowed through cracks in the warped wood, like starlight coruscating through a blackened sky. The same cracks allowed air to circulate within the oubliette, but it was tainted by the stench of rotting vegetables lef...
Published on March 07, 2016 21:49