Flood

The lake and river flooded.

 

There were carp swimming up the street and kids from the air-force reserve stabbing them with pitchforks, filling the buckets of massive bulldosers with their flapping corpses.

 

There's a below-ground tattoo shop, you can see the water completely flooding the staircase to the entrance. Everything submerged is being destroyed by the thick brown waters.

 

And there are people; people from town, filling the streets. I'm there too, with my little brother, we brought our bikes so our feet stay dry; and though we're splashing everyone we drive past, they're already wet so it doesn't matter.

 

I stop by a bench and grab on so I can keep my balance. There's a soccer mom there, watching her children splash around in the streets. She turns to her friend, clever, and makes a quip. "Who needs beach parties when we have a flood?"

 

The sewage is flooding, thousands of sewer parasites swim around in the streets with their children, and the smell of rotting fish lingers in the air.

 

"Oh boy, fun!" says the rich man swimming in the street.

 

"Oh no, s**t!" says the owner of the tattoo parlor.

Author's Note

Lake delta in wisconsin dells flooded, too.
It was a man made lake that they built expensive retirement properties into.

The lake drained into a nearby lake. Mirror lake.

All the rich people houses slid into the waters with it.

It's a mud puddle now.

Mirror lake, which was advertised as pristine and crystalline, is now flooded and mucky, filled with houses, and dead pets.

Reviews

[Adela Muresan]

"Who needs beach parties when we have a flood?"

:)).

The story is a little disgusting, but pretty well written.

Funny, and sad.

A.M.

[Hedra Helix]

man, thats crazy, happen often? visual piece.

I like the part where you lean against the bench.

I want an entire day with owen, you should do that! yeah, that would be a great piece. thoughts and all! For the anthology? wow, yea. oooo....

[windmill]

what a biatch, eh?

how long ago was it?

[Hedra Helix]

today?