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Indescribable: A Totally Unsatisfying Short Story
by Michael C. Keith

The worst thing imaginable happened as the church bells of St. Mathew’s chimed at four o’clock on the 18th of December in 1924. It was a complete shock to the small town’s inhabitants and changed how they viewed their lives from that point onward. So catastrophic were its long-term effects that every year on the anniversary of the ghastly incident people flocked to houses of worship worldwide to pray that it would never happen again.