As the class of 2013 strode through the school with whistles perched between their lips and cowbells in their hands, the freshmen cowered below the stairs as looks of terror forming on their faces. Students...

The air is heavy with a silence broken only by distant birdsong and the buzzing of flies. A man clad in a sheriff ’s uniform and a wide-brimmed hat is the only moving thing in sight. He turns around...