Chapel on the Hill #4: The Storm

Originally published at Midnight Mosaic Fiction on February 4, 2020.

The Summer had been dry and hot. It was the kind of baking heat that turned the grass rigid and tan and split the hard, packed dirt. The mechanical buzz of the grasshoppers penetrated all the homes of the Village during the day, and the bright chirps of the crickets punctuated the night. Dust kicked up by travelers on the road would have…