Come find explore this week’s flash fiction, but be careful where you wander…
The water looked deep and inviting.
It was deceptive.
And purposely so.
The more tourists that wandered down to the beautiful shore, the more tourists would end up wading out into the lake.
While the townspeople wouldn’t—in good conscious—tell visitors to check out the lake, there was a subtle sigh of relief when a car was spotted heading down the old road.
You see, the more outsiders stumbling into the water, the less the townspeople had to worry about losing one of their own.
The Forest Service would often find the vehicles a few weeks later. The whole town would head out to search the forest for the missing people.
Because there was always a slight chance they didn’t go in the water and they would be found.
But what the lake took, the lake kept.
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