Friday, May 30, 2008

Drabble: Excerpt from "Notes on the Behavior of Minor Waterways in the Lost Settlements"

Excerpt from "Notes on the Behavior of Minor Waterways in the Lost Settlements"

The creek ran through the middle of town, but according to the old man in the tavern, it had not always.

"So the water changed its course?"

"No, nothing of that sort."

"Oh, then the center of the town shifted as it grew?"

"No," he assured me. "It just wasn’t, and then it was."

"I don’t understand."

At that point the innkeeper kicked the old man out, and none of the other patrons I asked about the phenomenon had anything to say. Merely the ramblings of a drunkard, I suppose, though I am somehow compelled to believe the tramp’s tale.

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