Flappers & Fiction

High above Rockbridge Valley, a masonry dam holds back a torrent of water and a lifetime of silent greed. Davidge, a man who looks thirty at fifty, has quietly stripped old Deacon Gregg of his mills, his home, and his dignity. But he cannot silence the old man’s prophetic wrath. As the rains fall and the river swells, a final confrontation looms on the slippery rocks. With a rifle aimed at the Deacon’s chest and a crowbar wedged in the masonry, the question isn’t just who controls the water, but whose soul will survive the deluge.