rod boyle

Meltdown in Dallas

I'm a worker at a nuclear reactor in downtown Dallas, there's been a meltdown, I've had my turn trying to cool the reactor and wasn't successful and now am waiting....

The city has been evacuated. The streets, leafy and green, are deserted. It's surprisingly clean and there are some older redbrick buildings, I've never been, I'm favourably impressed.

I was exposed, over exposed as luck would have it, and now am waiting. All the workers have had their turn, and when they're done they wait in the center of the city as well, my skin prickles as if I've been sunburned and it's unspoken but I'll probably die, they'll all probably die, but for the moment we're waiting, walking around downtown.

In the parks there's the girlfriends and boyfriends of the workers, they've been brought in for a final hurrah, and I can see them fornicating, it's an orgy, in the fountains, on the grass in the park, it's a festive mood, and for a moment I'm sad there's no one to see me off. Maybe I'll get better, there's nothing for it but to wait...

The reactor's been abandoned now, everyone is in the parks, in the fountains fornicating, there's nothing more that can be done.

And there's this mutant, black skinned with a mouth in the center of the top of his head, and he/she opens it to reveal a row of white teeth and another mouth opens inside, and that opens and inside there's yet another mouth....