“Cult of the Deciduous” Commits Mass Suicide

Back Yard – Hundreds of dead were mourned and raked into piles for cremation two days ago as police began investigating the apparent mass suicide of the Cult of the Deciduous. Once thought to be merely a bizarre sect of Leafianity, letters and memos left behind by the cult’s members revealed a deep-seated fear of a coming apocalypse, and death the only salvation from it.

In a video left as a statement to the general public, cult leader Red Upperlimbthirdbranch said that the cult could “wait no longer. The Winter is near, and only we, the true believers, can save our souls from destruction. Many of you will not understand our motives and will call us madmen, but we have made the choice which we felt to be the best. We are gone to meet He Who Moves All Things, The Leaf-Blower.”

Those in adjacent trees who witnessed the event reported that around 7:00 in the evening, most all of the leaves suddenly fell off the branches as a light gust of wind swept by. “There was no noise, no screams,” cried one onlooker during an interview, “just a quiet rustling and slight creaking of the tree. It was awful. The worst of it is, they do this every year.”

Relatives were shocked and dismayed some time later as a small human child ran and leapt into the midst of the corpses, shattering them and scattering them across the landscape.







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