Rusty Quill presents

Springtime in Boggs, Huller

is an all-new story set in the same world as old gods of Appalachia,

which is a horror anthology podcast and therefore may contain material

not suitable for all audiences.

The story takes place following the events of the scenic route in season 2

and proceeds the events, a build Mama O'Coffin.

Chapter 1

A cowboy calls, Esau County, Virginia, 1927.

When you live on the edge of one of the oldest wind gaps along the Virginia Kentucky border,

Spring is something that happens to other people.

The ground was just beginning to offer up tender shoots and various shades of green,

knowing damn well that a frost-kissed cold snap could be perched like a tomcat,

waiting to swap the whole process back to crunchy mud and withered husks at any given moment.

It was a cruel and bitter game, but that's what living on the side of a mountain will get you.

This particular daybreak carried just that flavor of unfinished winter

and glory and boggs was making her morning rounds,

tending to the land that had been her refuge and small kingdom for as long as she or anyone else could remember.

She moved slower than she liked these days,

leaning on a long carved walking stick that had been her companion since she'd become a mother.

She made her way along the circuit she'd walked every day since she married wailing boggs all those years ago.

She tended the chickens out back and gathered what eggs her old girls had to offer up,

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