Go Forth and Behold!

An orange column of steam rose from the Stanwix house. They hadn’t been out of the neighborhood for more than a month before the calls came pouring into city hall. Shipments from Roswell, packages from Toledo - everything was stacking up at the post office. Everyone was looking for answers, but there were none to be found.

A group of investigators came to survey the property, and Mayor Billington offered to show them around the Stanwix grounds. He pointed out the bloodstains on the old tree-stump out front. On the slaughtering day 18 years prior, many chickens meet their end on that stump. This pleased Mayor Billington and Missy Fenzle who still remembered that day well.

After hours of searching the investigators found no evidence of foul play and moved on. This came as no surprise to the Mayor or to Missy. You see Stanwix had always been a righteous man of proper breeding, and the only crime he had ever committed was high treason on the Island of Swenson while attending seminary school there in 1962.

Time moved slowly for the next year or so. The only excitement that Mayor Billington had was when he and Missy would go to Benson’s department store and try on socks .

It's wasn't until the winter came and Old Oak Pinstripe's leaves faded that they could find themselves once again. They soon gave up the black magic dreams they had as children. In doing so, Missy Fenzle put on the octagon shaped helmet that once belonged to her grandmother and walked around town as the angel-dust fell upon Chamberlain street and the tuxedo shops began to open up.

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