Kelsey Jamelyn

The Lake

“There once was an entire town here... beneath the lake…,” my brother stated quietly, gravely. “The houses still stand down there… you can see their roofs if you swim down far enough…” his voice building with the story, “they say that some people refused to leave and they drowned in their homes when the lake was filled…” His flashlight created shadows on his face that made him almost unrecognizable in my child's eyes. The darkness behind him swallowed everything that didn’t quite touch the light.