The Protected

"Why, it’s me, dear…Your mother…and your father…or at least what’s left of him..."

They had heard the ghost stories. They had seen the movies. But nothing could prepare the four boys for the real horrors that roamed through the woods that night. In this short novella of gruesome terror, a group of escaped convicts claw their way through the Appalachian back country, stumbling across a group of campers before having to deal with an ancient and terrible judgement.