Sour Candy

by Kealan Patrick Burke

A line from a book he’d read in high school popped into his mind: The nameless are easier to bury.

There was something terribly wrong with the child, and simply by crossing paths with him, Phil had caught his attention.

Because that scream was a lot more than just an annoyance. No, the more Phil heard it, the more he started to think of it as something infinitely worse. He became convinced it was a beacon. The child was signaling the others.