Thursday, April 12, 2012

What Lurks Beneath The Water?


Today is Day Twelve of
Thirty Days of Photography II.

Today's photo topic: FEAR

Lurch and I live on a lake. It is beautiful. 

For years, our refuge was on the water. We had a boat. We had jet skis. One of our favorite things to do was take the boat out at twilight and watch the warm glow of lights from homes shine over the water as the dark approached. Evening cocktails while drifting in the water was a ritual. On the weekends, we would load up a thermos of tequila sunrises and jug fish as we watched the sun come up over the lake. Ahhh. Peace and serenity and mind numbing tequila.

We have a small neighborhood. Everyone is friendly and waves and exchanges warm greetings. Like the couple who live by our neighborhood pool. He is our neighborhood pool man and likes to talk way too much when we visit the pool. His wife works at the grocery store and is a kind, gentle woman. Her voice sounds like she has been sucking on helium. We laugh a little at our strange neighbors.

Until he killed her.

It was a brutal murder we were all unaware of until she had been missing for two weeks.

Texas Rangers invaded the quiet neighborhood and discovered that the strange, little pool man had taken her lifeless body to his garage and cut her into pieces...

and dumped them into our lake.

They never found her head or two of her limbs.

We haven't been on the lake since. 


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14 comments:

Cheryl said...

I am in shock.

mo.stoneskin said...

If you could let me know what lake that is I'll be sure not to visit it.

Unfinished Person said...

Whether true or not, what a great story! Although if true, not so much for you...or the woman. :(

Malisa said...

Unfortunately, it is a true story.

Mariann Simms said...

Ewwwww. That's icky. I'm sure the body parts wouldn't come to kill you...they'd probably want to be buried altogether. I'm not so afraid of the dead as I am the living.

Linda Medrano said...

Malisa, I know this is a true story. Terrible what people do sometimes. Still, I wouldn't be afraid of the lake. Well, that's a damn lie. I cannot swim and I'm afraid of water. I don't even like to take a shower. Great picture! No body parts, huh?

meleah rebeccah said...

HOLY F*CK! I am covered with the creepy chills from HEAD TO TOE after reading this.

Fab photo.

laughingmom said...

That is a gruesome story and I wouldn't want to go near the water. Nice photo!

Ziva said...

Holy crap! I always thought big fish with sharp teeth was the biggest threat under the surface, but I guess I know better now. I am NEVER going swimming again. Great photo, though, it's perfect for the story. ;)

nonamedufus said...

Tequila sunrises watching the sun coming up? You guys start early. Are you sure you didn't imagine all of this?

Sue said...

I'm loving your daily posts here my friend! However, I'm going to pretend that your little story was just a writing assignment or otherwise I may never come visit you because of the "lake" and "her"!

Take care,
Sue

00dozo said...

I wouldn't want to be on that lake either, for fear of finding (or fishing out) the missing parts. Gah! A gruesome story, but your photo is quite apropos.

;-)

Nicky said...

Ok, you win. Wow.

Kristen said...

Wow. I seriously cannot believe that is a true story. Holy crap!!!