Shadows Whispering in the Night
If it had been daytime, the two children trudging down the road would have seen nothing but a pale gravel road framed on both sides by Jimson weed, crabgrass and dandelions narrowing down to a thread and stretching out into infinity. The plowed-over fields of sandy and stony dirt would have been broken at rare intervals by decaying farmhouses and sadly hunched trailers. There might have been a lone tree or two every now and again.