The Trials of Coventry

A short story

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Rain pounded the roofs across the town of Coventry, Massachusetts. Spring had formally begun, though the only change in the weather thus far was that the snow that blanketed the town all winter had given way to rain. The winter of 1692 was a bitter one. Old Goody Abbott swore the Cape had frozen on New Year’s night, and soon the Atlantic would freeze too and devils would walk across the ocean from the…