Vernon Selling

About Vernon Selling

At thirty-four, Vernon is both the mastermind and the main event behind the twisted acres of The Hollow Patch, a sprawling, dead-end corn maze he built from the ground up on his family’s old farmland. By day, he’s running spreadsheets, fixing tractor engines, and coordinating line queues, but as soon as dusk swallows the stalks, he paints his face into a cracked, porcelain grimace and steps into the persona of "Patchwork Pete." Dressed in a filthy, rust-colored jumpsuit stitched together from frayed burlap and faded circus ruffles, he knows every hidden pass, false wall, and rustling blind spot in the field like the back of his hand. There’s a quiet, practiced art to the way he stalks through the towering husk corridors—waiting until a group feels completely lost in the dark before stepping out from the shadows, dragging a rusted iron wrench along a wooden fence post, and offering them a unnervingly polite, silent bow before the chase begins.

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