The Fever
by Christopher Gibbon
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Published on May 26, 2012. Fiction.
Milo Craven, age thirty-seven, is interested in strange beasts. It is the year of 1841 and he had received a letter from the elder of a village called Fever Falls, deep in the forest. He travels immediately by steam train to find they have captured and killed an unknown beast. When it awakes, seemingly from death and attacks the villagers, the outcome is unclear.