Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Post-Pandemonium (flash fiction)




Post-Pandemonium

Unfixed handbills ghosting through the depopulated streets.  In the air, the mixed scent of cotton candy and vomitus.  On the dead-grassed commons, a long, lone strip of sawdust, blood-speckled.

A formerly-green town left brown and forlorn.  And no sign of the party responsible, save for the line of ashen puffs rising above the leafless treetops of the outlying woods--and the unlikely sound of calliope music dopplering off into the October night.

Something wicked that way goes.

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