Chronicles of Ashwrath
Narrated Horror Series
It is 1348. The sickness is moving through the village house by house, and something older than the sickness is moving through it too, and the priest sits in his vestry with the church’s explanation in one hand and the chronicle’s evidence in the other, and they are not the same thing.
They are not the same shape. They do not fit in the same hand.
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Two Girls Missing in the Woods – Chronicles of Ashwrath
It is the 14th of October, 1348, and Ashwrath is holding its market because to stop would be to say the word nobody is saying. They come to the stalls in the cold morning and stand a little further apart than they used to and hold their vinegar rags like small, damp prayers, and they buy and sell and pretend that buying and selling still means what it meant before.Two girls went to the tree line before the market bell. Agnes in her mother's green shawl, Ruth with the basket, walking with the quick serious purpose of children who have been given a task and mean to finish it. They did not come back. The ground remembers nothing of them.Somewhere beneath the chapel, by one candle in a locked room, the priest reads. The chronicle is on his desk. It was not the same book yesterday that it is tonight. It will not be the same book tomorrow that it is now.He reads because someone must witness it. He is that someone. It is the only thing he has left that he is sure of.