Wasteland Screams

Inspired by The Write Brain Prompt

” Day 34 “

 

The sparkling trout stream passes through a town called Wasteland Screams.

Wasteland Screams has just four streets with neat white houses lined up side by side and all four streets are named for trees- there’s Cherry and Elm and Oak and Spruce.

There are two Churches in Wasteland Screams and each has a cemetery full of empty graves.

Hidden not in the graves but at the head of each of each grave is a little metal cylinder meant for flowers- but instead of flowers, inside each of those little metal cylinders are a handful of green beads, two pages from a book with no words and dust.

The dusty is heavy and thick and it coats the beads and the pages from the book with no words and sometimes when it rains the water drips down into the blackness of those metal containers  and is devoured by the dust and the beads and the pages from the book…drop by drop.

The people who visit Wasteland Screams- because nothing can live there- see it in great detail through cloudy eyes and they scream in fright through their frozen lungs and they try to raise their hands to their throats to protect themselves from what haunts the streets of Wasteland Screams but they can’t.

The people who see Wasteland Screams are beyond help from anyone.

Because

Wasteland Screams is the place where the dead go

when they dream

 and they do dream

in their graves at night.