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Weekly Contest #34
My mother told me there was something in the rain. Water? I’d inquired, just to be annoying. Our water came from the pipes. We relied on the city reservoir, like most people, so no rain runoff was involved. Apparently the reservoir purifiers had broken down, or something. Mom had heard about it and relayed it to me a while ago, but I hadn’t been paying much attention. Mom said she liked my snark, then sighed, and said, Well. She repeated that she liked my snark, but that there was something in the rain. So don’t go out in it.She di...
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