Hex

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

People desperately resisted the idea of their own death by looking away for as long as they could and avoiding the subject.

Yeah, ain’t we all a little scared of death? How do you deal with the fact of your own mortality in your daily life? Not a comfortable subject at your Thanksgiving family dinner, right? As for the people in Black Spring, death joins them at the dinner table every night. Whispering from that open corner in that stitched mouth.