Prologue
Gone!
For months afterward, nobody could agree on exactly how he did it. There were of course some who blamed ufos, mole men, and/or a combination of the two. Others said it was swamp gas causing a mass hallucination, or something of the sort. Generally this was the opinion, although no one was sure how exactly that could have been it. The facts were inevitabe, nevertheless: Benjamin Talducci had vanished into thin air.
Well, not exactly thin air. There was a little room in the official, widely-released theory for escape, yet they all could be rendered obsolete by evidence: he had not, as the prevailing theory stated, gone outside and exercised that day. Neither had he tried to make a run for it the last time he had been out.
Despite their bickering among themselves as to the cause, the villagers all agreed on the result, and the extremely chilling implication: Benjamin Talducci, the notorious "happy day killer", was not in his cell in the high-security ward at the Billiard County Mental Hospital.
((A.N.: This was very hard to write, as 1. I'm typing this on an IPod, and 2. I'm making this up as I go along. Sorry if there are any discrepancies later. ))
