Blackwater Val
Finally, mercifully, the sinkhole site and whatever brand of nightmare occurring there disappeared behind them, fading back into the surrounding cornfields as he motored away.
To their left some Holsteins were scattered, even a few American bison calves milling in the lower pastures, rich pastures bordered by rail fences and flanked with nut, maple, and fruit trees just starting to turn. Farther up near a barn some young hands in checked, flannel shirts were bucking bales of hay to feed the ponies in the late-afternoon mist. Katie watched the calves, and Richard wiped the sweat from his brow with his shirtsleeve.
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