Jan 1, 2010
One stark winter morning after a snowstorm, Big Hans, the Segrens’ hired hand, finds the unconscious body of the son of a neighboring farm family. After a ritualistic process of revival, the Pedersen Kid, still somewhat delirious, tells the strange, horrifying story of how a yellow-gloved stranger had broken into his house and forced the family into the fruit cellar; the boy escaped into a vicious snowstorm and managed to make his way to the Segren house before collapsing. Now he fears that his parents may have been murdered.
It becomes clear that there is...
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