Arizona Bay

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It’s been two weeks since the event that transformed the entire landscape of the Western United States. Most of the mere thousands who survived are calling it an “Armageddon;” a cleansing of a culture run amok with narcissistic consumerism; Mother Nature’s wrath against those she felt unworthy.

Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange Counties were obliterated by a wave of disasters. The first meteor struck downtown Long Beach on August 4th at approximately 2:03 P.M. For two hours the coast was pelted with a constant stream of meteors that blackened the sky, followed by tsunami-force tidal waves, placing most of the region under water, up to 50 miles inland.

The fault lines could no longer stand still, and at 3:45, the first quakes were felt. The series was so severe that most of the southern coastline fell into the ocean and disappeared forever. Along with the coast, some five million residents of So Cal, were lost to the raging sea.

On the flip side, my Phoenix home is now beach-front property. So, win for me.

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  1. Avatar Emilou

    Great story! Too bad I live in California…

  2. Avatar Browncoatben

    Love it. Makes me want to listen to some Tool. This has that same irreverence and welcoming (as the song) of what should be a tragedy.

  3. Avatar Marli

    I like the twist in the tragedy. An eternal optimist eh?

  4. Avatar Tad Winslow

    A Los Angeles Atlantis in the pacific. Imagine visiting that place. wow. Cool spin ending.

  5. Avatar H.S. Wift

    YAY! PHOENIX FTW!!!!

    Yeah, I lived there or something… Anyway, I liked the story, and found it to be a great representation of a national disaster with that wonderful little last comment. I actually loved this.

  6. Ahfl_icon THX 0477

    Sounds like someone doesn’t like California. Nice job on the dead pan telling throughout without being dry then a funny little ending.

  7. Avatar John Perkins

    I love California.

    This piece is part of a challenge to use the mood, lyrics and theme of a song to create a Ficly. Anyone familiar with the Tool song Ænema will recognize some of the phrasing and the overall theme.

    Thank you all for the kind comments. THX, my original intention was to start it as a newspaper article, but I ran out of room to put that context in, but left the tone.

    The last line is what I would imagine Maynard James Keenan (lead singer of Tool, and writer of the lyrics for the song) would say if he read the article. He lives in Jerome Arizona, but I thought Phoenix would be more recognizable.

    And Ben, virtually everything makes me want to listen to Tool.

  8. Avatar The Dark Hillbilly

    You should check out “Lucifer’s Hammer.” It’s an older science fiction novel about a big assed comet slamming into the Earth. Really a fun read. There’s a scene where a surfer is riding a ginormous tsunami towards the beach, realizes he’s doomed, and decides to go out ‘in style.’

  9. Avatar marcusjohnster

    fantastique

  10. Avatar Jim Stitzel

    That beach-front property will be short-lived. The aftermath is going to be brutal.