Pilltar (story)

Seth is a reclusive genius, overweight, and has balding hair. He meets and becomes friends with Stephanie Barrin, a flyer evangelist 8th-grader at a high-end religious day school in his area. While she is initially untrusting of him, he soon wins her over with his charm, and tricks her into performing chores for him as they forge a mentor-understudy relationship.

Turned off by the snooty atmosphere she has learned from school and home, Stephanie is eventually awakened to a deeper understanding of her life and what is in it through being around Seth. Her time spent with him eventually leads to tensions in her home and school life, as both her mother and confirmation class instructor mistrust Seth when his influence on Stephanie becomes impossible to ignore.

When a cannibal cult attacks the town, it's up to Stephanie and Seth to put Pilltar into action.