"The first time he saw this river, he thought: those waters are deeper and faster than they look.  That has troubled him ever since."

In the year since their son was the first victim of a serial killer known as the The Riverside Strangler, a devastated husband and wife have tried to pretend life can somehow be normal again... but the secrets they're keeping from each other are pushing their relationship to the brink. 

To make matters worse, The Riverside Strangler was never caught, and now the husband is obsessed with running along the river at night, searching for the truth about why his son died: a truth he may not really want to know...

Originally published in Corpse Blossoms edited by Julia Sevin and R.J. Sevin (Creeping Hemlock Press, October 2005).