Gunther's Cavern

No one in New Calar could remember a worse day than the second Tuesday of July, 2012.Even the town's self-appointed historian, Octavius Palestro, could not identify a more evil day.On the second Tuesday of July 10, 2012, eleven of the town's children disappeared.They disappeared without a trace. In the morning, they awoke as usual. Those who ate breakfast ate breakfast. The one who attended daily Mass at St. Rose's Church attended Mass at St. Rose's Church. The two who saw their...
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No one in New Calar could remember a worse day than the second Tuesday of July, 2012.Even the town's self-appointed historian, Octavius Palestro, could not identify a more evil day.On the second Tuesday of July 10, 2012, eleven of the town's children disappeared.They disappeared without a trace. In the morning, they awoke as usual. Those who ate breakfast ate breakfast. The one who attended daily Mass at St. Rose's Church attended Mass at St. Rose's Church. The two who saw their younger brothers or sisters off to daycare so their parents could work saw their younger brothers or sisters off to daycare. The three who helped milk the cows or feed the chickens helped milk the cows or feed the chickens. The six who text-messaged each other via cell phone text-messaged each other via cell phone.By lunch time, they had disappeared.None had been seen nor heard from since.* * * * * *One day the hole was not there, the next day it was.One day the stream flowed as usual, seeping over mossy dams where it arose from the spring, tripping over rocks, cutting channels in the mud alongside its banks. The next day a hole had opened up just behind the twenty-foot rock overlooking the stream, the rock that Gunther sat on when he came to watch the fish and frogs and pollywogs. Although the hole measured only two inches in diameter, the ground around it looked to have collapsed inward ever so slightly, causing the rock to shift an inch or two.Or perhaps his imagination was deceiving him. Holes didn't open up behind giant rocks--did they? Rocks this size didn't move while the rest of the earth stood still. Or did they?Was something utterly unearthly going on beneath New Calar? Follow Gunther and his younger sister, June, in this gripping tale of Science Fiction mystery, guaranteed to captivate and surprise you at every turn.