The Teek Hole

Description

It was in the soil, before it was in the spinach. ‘Easy’ Segar wasn’t aware that the ‘magic’ in the leaves, resulted from the very patch of dirt from which the spinach sprouted. Of course, an eleven year-old could not be expected to comprehend the underlying process. That which lurked beneath a patch of bottomland…just down-river from the bluffs of Chester, Illinois…was a mysterious influence; sitting silently below the feet of an unawares population…