The Deadsong
“These reports occurred within the same timeframe––thirteen days. Experts said it was a strange migratory phenomenon for any species of snake and simply ludicrous to assume it was anything other than coincidence that thirteen people would die on any given year by a serpent smooch, and you could bet your fur it would happen next year. And the year after that. Why should the pattern change? It had remained constant for almost twenty years.Both the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Department of... Statistical Analysis published data revealing a similar cycle that lasted thirty-five years in a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; however, the cycle ended just before it began in Hemming, Tennessee. This had been the chief study of Dr. Dennis Sedgewick––formerly a tenured professor of Herpetology at Penn State, now a part-time biology and chemistry professor at the University of Tennessee. Ned Robertson considered calling up Dr. Sedgewick every year when the season began––the reaping season, it was often called––but ever since Ned was elected Sheriff, Sedgewick showed a real disinterest in making the trip.MoreLess
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