Hex

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

But love was a mysterious, deceptive force, and one of the few areas in which Steve didn’t trust his powers of judgment the full hundred percent.

This is all it takes for people to plunge into insanity: one night alone with themselves and what they fear the most.

The people of Black Spring had brought this on themselves: It was they who were evil, a human evil. They had created the evil that was Katherine by allowing the doom and gloom in themselves to gain the upper hand, by punishing the innocent and glorying in their own sense of righteousness.

The infant’s only answer to the cruel hallucination of birth was to scream … so that’s what Grim did.

One evil spawned another, greater evil, and ultimately everything could be traced back to Black Spring. Black Spring had brought this upon itself.

Damn those people. Damn their never-ending chain of selfish choices. Damn their refusal to seek reconciliation, damn their inability to love, damn their sick insistence to see the ugly, not the good.