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The World Is Ending in Tampa, Florida!

The World Is Ending in Tampa, Florida!

flash fiction by Paige Blackburn

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May 20, 2022
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From luxury boats or the local news, the greater population of Tampa watched their city shift, then sink, Atlantis-style, and slide deep into the only darkness we do not know.

Hundreds of Tampa children watched in wonder and asked their mothers if octopuses were going to sleep in their beds. Hundreds of Tampa mothers didn’t know how to answer that questi…

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