Short Fiction: Chickamauga

In Andrew Clark's latest story, a wife and mother finds a surprise display on her lawn on Halloween when her husband's obsession with the Civil War battle takes a sinister turn.

By Andrew Clark,

At first, Catherine Davis thought some kids had played a prank. On the front lawn of her Riverdale home were two piles: one a pile of thirty severed hands, the other a pile of thirty severed feet. Seated in a plastic chair at the centre of the lawn was a makeshift dummy sporting a detergent-jug head onto which a bushy black beard had bee…