31.7.06

toilet horror

walking along the main avenue of the City a couple nights ago, little drops of rain alighting on my head and bouncing off my coat, too light to be called a proper rain, the drops pouring too copiously to be called a drizzle, i witnessed one of the phenomena that help define urbania where i live.

gurgling out of the sewers, a brownish muck began filling the street like an evil lovecraftian murk, swirling as it rose to cover the pavement as the horrified Citizens, as unfortunate as i was to be out on the streets that night, could do nothing but watch...

thinking about it now, i imagine nothing more morbid or horrific than a thousand or so people flushing their toilets at the exact same instant...

3 comments:

Blagador said...

it would be freakier if the whatevs inside the simultaneously flushing toilets whooshed straight down instead of swirling clockwise....

carry on.

banzai cat said...

You have too much time on your hands. :-p

But you got the Lovecraft purple prose right. (How's that for constructive criticism?) :-D

skinnyblackcladdink said...

bc: haha. i actually felt like i miffed it coz for some reason i forgot to throw "eldritch" in the text.

paul: funny you should talk about the swirl direction...

df: yes, it is.