THE SUB A Study In Witchcraft by Thomas M. Disch

Author:Thomas M. Disch [Disch, Thomas M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The next Sunday morning he was still there, curled up inside the wooden shell of the pulpit. From the entrance of the church not even his shoes were visible, and in any case no one had come inside. The church was empty of parishioners, though the protesters still paraded back and forth on the sidewalk, enjoying their triumph—for the headlines of yesterday’s Brainerd newspaper had finally broken the scandal. The county prosecutor’s office had announced that DNA tests had shown that James Cottonwood could not have been the father of Judy Johnson’s child. Further scandal was promised. The paper said that the identity of the child’s true father was known to Cottonwood’s attorney and to the prosecution, and would be revealed at a suitable point in the appeals process.

The nave of the church was large, and the spring weather unusually cool. Reverend Johnson’s corpse decayed sedately, shriveling rather than bloating. There was no great stench. Anyone who might have thought to poke his head in at the front door would have noted only that the usual mustiness had intensified. But no one did. There were no Sunday services anymore, the protesters stopped showing up, and it seemed only natural to the neighbors to suppose the Johnsons had left town.

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