The Hollow at Bellwether

Every seven years, the town of Bellwether gives something to the water.

Hydrologist Hattie Greer hasn't been back to rural Georgia since her mother drove her away in the dark at age twelve. Now her grandmother is dead, the house at the end of Spring Road is hers, and every night at three a.m. small wet footprints appear in the front hall. In a cedar chest she finds a ledger kept since 1871, listing a name for every seventh summer. It's a drought year. And the town has been waiting for her to come home.

A haunting Southern Gothic tale of folk belief, buried history and the ghosts who just want someone to tell the truth.

• Southern Gothic horror novella, about 46 pages (6×9 PDF)
• Content note: themes of drowning, grief and small-town violence
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