Sneak Preview: The House at the Center of the Worlds

Here is a sneak preview of another current project. Keep in mind that this is an unedited first draft of a novel I'm still writing.
He was walking down a narrow lane that wound through the hilly, deeply wooded backcountry. He hadn’t seen a house for miles, and no cars had passed for hours. The sky had been a leaden grey all afternoon, with pregnant, dark clouds smothering close to the ground and distant flashes of lightning flickering at the far reaches of his vision. The storm finally hit sho...