description: It was not a good day to go to camp. The rain had started early the night before, a slow, soaking drizzle that only the farmers liked. It was not so popular with the parents and kids who met in the parking lot of St. John's Church in Hamelin, Minnesota at four-thirty on a summer Saturday morning. The dim outline of the St. Johh's church bus known as the Chariot waited at one end of the parking lot. Revered Steven Thomas was behind the wheel; he already had the motor running and the heater on so the kids would have a comfortable ride to camp. No one wanted to be out in the weather. It wasn't long at all before the bus seats were filled. It was not yet five a.m. when Reverend Thomas pulled the Chariot onto the short stretch of blacktop that led to U.S. Highway 75. The bus turned north, its taillights fading into the rainy predawn darkness. Less that twenty minutes later, Reverend Steven Thomas, the St. John's Chariot, and most of Hamelin, Minnesota's children between the ages of eight and twelve disappeared from the face of the earth.
language: English
title: The Quarry
titlecomplete: The Quarry
publisher: Chapel & Croft Publishing