By the Blood by Pedro

[Graeme]

Being a Halloween story, I kept reading more into it than I should have...but that's obviously the author's intent. If that's so, he has succeeded wonderfully! The links at the end were the icing on the cake, so thank you! A well-told tale that lead me up the garden path, or maybe down the zig-zag lane, never quite knowing what was around the next corner.

[Bruin Fisher]

A great piece of reader deception. Many of these ancient institutions do have weird traditions. I had to describe a tradition that was current at my old school when I was there to someone who didn't know about it - and in the telling it dawned on me that that custom, which I hadn't thought to doubt, was actually very suspect and very weird.

[Cole Parker]

Makes you wonder if at times the rites became rather awful, college kids taking things too far.

C