Brian Patrick stood outside of an abandoned office building in Welch, West Virginia, surveying its decaying interior. The flooring had mostly collapsed, but the beams held. A filing cabinet stood against a back wall.
On top of the cabinet was some sort of trinket, but through the inky inner sanctum, Brian couldn’t make out its size or shape.
Wanting a closer look, he shimmied out onto one of the beams, reached up, and snatched the ornament. Back out in the light, he examined its jagged edges. Strange. Eerie almost. A plaster dental cast with missing front teeth. Brian tucked the cast into a jacket pocket and kept exploring…