Sweet Taste of Souls

Dawna Lee Heising

Nerves are frayed after an all-night drive when Nate, Kyle, Wendy and Lily spot "Elle's Kountry Kitchen" in the decaying rural town of Angel Falls and decide to make a brief stop for pie.The eerie café and Ellinore's disturbing demeanor are disconcerting enough but the café also displays an unsettling photo gallery - of previous wayfarers all in odd, stiffly posed positions. In fact, the people in the photos are alive, trapped in their little photo prisons, free to move about except when customers enter.A sinister force also lurks in the cursed café. It directs Ellinore's sad, broken mind and orchestrates her bizarre photography "collection".When a problem with one of the photographs causes Ellinore to drown its captives in a fit of rage, she composites a new photo with the images she secretly took of her last visitors. As the replacement shoots off the printer Nate, Kyle, Wendy and Lily suddenly get "disappeared" out of their van. They awake to find themselves in a stark photo prison. Through their one glass wall they see the outside world - the empty café they just left. They must escape before Ellinore's escalating temper causes her to replace them as well.But some dangers are even more penetrating than death: Evil is always hungry for souls. It cultivates terror, manipulates fear and seduces with revenge. Nate's good heart understands and resists but Lily's heart is tender, traumatized, vulnerable - just like Ellinore's was before Evil first seduced her. Lily becomes Evil's next convert.