The Infusorium

Dunnstown is in the midst of a strange season: choking “paper mill days” and the discovery of weirdly altered, elongated skeletons buried within Dunnstown’s sprawling Municipal Park. Homicide detective Raphaella Tosto--a three-year veteran of the DPD--and her partner, Detective Mike Guidry, are on the trail of the murderer responsible for these crimes, an investigation that will draw them both deep within the pall of uncanny corruption that inundates Dunnstown and its unfortunate residents. Publisher's note: This novella is also available in Jon Padgett's collection, THE SECRET OF VENTRILOQUISM.