Problematic Peyote

The church clock struck eight of thevillagers as they lined up to shake hands with the vicar after aworthy, but dullservice. Crows started from the trees in alarm. Bodies lay strewn across the doorstep of the church anda line ofants began to form as they marched across the ruins of the fallen clock-tower, towards an early lunch. There was a serene, momentary quiet after the echoes ceased. A figure glided past the church wall, before the silence was cracked by a baby screaming as it crawled je...