Lakebridge

Vermont. Picturesque and lovely, especially in the spring, Vermont attracts visitors from across the country. Even Stansbury, with its old, covered bridge that spans Stansbury Lake and goes nowhere, attracts many in search for maple doughnuts, maple syrup and even miniature trebuchets built by Stansbury'¬"s one-armed tourist shop owner, Gil.The tourists eventually leave Stansbury, but not its residents. They can never leave. When they try, they die. Except for Gil. He never dies. The bridge keeps bringing him back. He knows the bridge is responsible. It is responsible for every horror that ever befell the people of Stansbury: the people who fear the bridge but will not speak of it. The bridge makes people do things '¬ ; bad things '¬ ; so that it can continue to love and care for them all. Some have tried to destroy the bridge, but as long as the bridge is fed with the lives of the innocents of Stansbury, and as long as it can keep Gil from leaving, it will go on '¬ ; loving the people of Stansbury.