The Mulberry Orchard at Dusk

In late August of 1987, Luna stopped for gas at a lonely station on the edge of Cedar Vale, Kansas—a town with a cross on the water tower and a main street that rolled up at sundown. A man in a flannel shirt told her about the mulberry orchard out past the old county road, where the fruit fell black and swollen from branches that bent too low. He said children in the seventies had gone missing there, and that the trees grew thickest where the search parties found nothing. Luna drove out that evening, not to investigate, but because the air had a weight she couldn't shake. The orchard was older than anyone remembered—gnarled trunks, fruit bleeding into the dirt, and a silence that made her ears ring. She met a woman under the largest tree, her hands stained dark, offering mulberries from a chipped bowl. The woman knew her name. She told Luna the orchard remembered every mouth that had ever tasted its fruit. Luna left without eating, but she still dreams of that bowl, and the weight of a single berry on her tongue. #MulberryOrchardAtDusk #CedarVale #Kansas #MissingChildren #OrchardHorror #SmallTownTerror #Luna #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #Anthology #TheLonelyChapter #Intimatehorror #Folklore #1987 #Dread #Atmospheric #Slowburn #Ghosts #LonelyChapter #LunarHorror Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo