a short story about a civilization at the bottom of the lake

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Kingdom at the Bottom of the Lake

a short story about a civilization at the bottom of the lake



There’s a kingdom at the bottom of the lake, down amongst the discarded shopping carts and plastic bags and cinder blocks.

I wonder why they never visit us up here, what they spend their days doing down in the murk. Do they gaze up at the surface and imagine a world of boat-bottoms and humans’ lower halves? A civilization of those kicking legs they’ve seen treading water, paling in the cold?

Or perhaps they wonder how a world could be so full of shopping carts, plastic bags and cinder blocks that its inhabitants must dump them in a lake.

And with that, I no longer wonder why they never visit.


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Short story written by Peter Chiykowski

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Story prompt taken from a photo by Jacob Walti

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