What We Bury

I wanted to disappear. Instead, I became their favorite obsession.

New town. New name. Same old monsters. I thought slinging pie at a sleepy coastal diner would buy me safety. I was wrong.

When a local predator dragged me under the jetty, my body did what it always does - it went to stone. I froze, waiting for the nightmare to be over.

But the nightmare never started.

Five masked men stepped out of the shadows and strung him up by the ...