A Sacrifice of Faith
Nobody in Clark's Falls leaves for good. Faith Moreland's father tried.
On a rainy Friday night, John Moreland's car goes off Clark's Creek Bridge. The whole town calls it an accident. Fourteen-year-old Faith counts the ceiling panels in the hospital waiting room and notices that nobody will say what really happened.
Then a dare sends her into the sealed Shaker church east of town. The others come out sick and angry. Faith comes out with a nosebleed and a clarity she cannot explain. By Monday, a story has formed about what she did in there. Nobody wrote it, and everybody believes it.
The whispers become a label. The label becomes a committee. Every cruelty arrives dressed as care, for everyone's safety and for her own good. Her mother is starting to agree with them. Her little sister is humming a tune that nobody taught her.
Faith keeps a notebook. She finds a photograph of twelve body bags under the bridge, and she finds the archive years that someone removed. Under the church she finds a leather restraint small enough for a child.
The whole town is asking her for the same few words.
She won't say them.
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