Orphans — Ed Naha

OH, PLEASE -- TEACH ME TO KILL TONIGHT…

It was a beautiful autumn night in a tiny upstate New York town. Everything was picture perfect. Except for the children.

The first-graders at the exclusive Roth School had apple cheeks, innocent smiles, and hearts of pure evil. And day by day, as the children acquired superhuman strength, as they developed strange, unnatural desires, that evil grew.

Pretty young Kate Winston felt something terribly wrong from the moment she drove into the town of Belleville. Something in the thick, blinding fog seemed to be reaching out for her. Something like a shadow seemed to be closing in behind her. She had come to teach. But she couldn't stop the horror that made her blood run cold. She couldn't stop the long, agonizing scream that tore from her throat. She couldn't stop the children…or the terrible things they were destined to do…