The Laundress Of Silver Lake (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
She scrubbed until the sweat and grime disappeared from every citizen’s shirt. She rinsed, swirled, and spun clothes in the lake until they turned whiter than white. “You have a magic touch,” the townspeople said. “How do you make our shirts so white?” “Shhh,” she’d say and touch a pruned finger to her lips. She never told. On a dreadful day in 2270, Josephine Fritzkiev vanished just like one of her stains. In fact, the entire population of Silver Lake met their demise that same day. The town vaporized in a massive solar flare. Some blamed the disaster on Josephine. They said she fused naturally occurring elements that never should have been mixed, creating a radioactive nightmare. Perhaps the people of Silver Lake wore clean shirts coated in a mineral abomination that attracted the sun’s rays like a magnet. Arvid knew the theory was hogwash. Meter readings showed no elevated radiation in the area. He’d come to Silver Lake working on his first article for the magazine Lifestyles of the Presumed Dead and Mysterious.
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