by matthewwidener
Father Edward Simmons arrives in Juniper Ridge, New Mexico in disgrace. Exiled by his diocese after a moment of weakness, he finds a town already consuming itself. Marriages curdling, friendships turning violent, ordinary people following their worst impulses past the point of return. Something has been tending Juniper Ridge for years, cultivating its sins the way a farmer cultivates a crop. As Edward investigates, his own compromised faith and unresolved desires make him precisely the kind of man the darkness feeds on. A literary horror novella about guilt, complicity, and what it costs to save the people you can when you cannot save everyone.
