This Hideous Joy - Short Reads, #15

Spring is in the air. The town of Bract Hollow, Vermont, is a nice, normal place full of nice, normal people, or at least it used to be. Now, everyone smiles a little too widely, even when they ought to be sad, and few seem to notice the difference. Even fewer have noticed the recent spate of mysterious deaths, or the strange, flaky material scattered around each fallen body. No one, however, suspects the truth. Something strange is growing in the town of Bract Hollow, and something much worse is about to be in bloom.