A couple of weeks back, I was listening to This American Life (as I often do) on the train ride home from work. The episode was entitled “The Cruelty of Children,” and I happened to be listening to Act Two, in which Ira Sher was narrating from his short fiction story “The Man in the Well,” which told the tale of a group of children who discover … well … a man in a well. Something about this story inspired and spooked me, and I ended up jotting down some lines in my notebook. Glad I had that notebook with me.

I liked the result enough to do a little visual digging and design work in Photoshop, and I’ve posted the result here for you to view/read. Hopefully, you’ll get interested enough to listen to the podcast. Many thanks to ~bagnino over at DeviantArt.com for the photograph.

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