Mark Twain Lake B.S.

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Kimberly Crouse. Mark Twain Lake B.S.

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In the Spring of 2008, the Midwest had torrential flooding, it was the worse they've seen in ages. The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers had expanded their boundaries significantly because of this. Everyone in the Midwest were affected, even places not normally so. “The water just kept rising and rising”, is what most people were saying with a glazed look in their eyes.

Even in the small town of Florida, Missouri. It is a rustic little town. Just quaint enough for some folk to call it home with happiness in their voices. Surrounding this quaint town is a humongous lake called the Mark Twain Lake. It is a beautiful lake, set in one of those picturesque settings that people drool all over when looked upon. Yet, it is pretty desolate, not that much traffic on it most times and only a few homes sprinkled around it. This makes it even more to die for. On one end is a nice vacation area that is pretty busy, not crazy but busy. They carefully choose who gets to visit and how many.

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In the middle of the lake on her way back, she seems to go into some kind of seizure. She is thrashing around in all different directions, then stops. She is shaken up, looks around confused and sees nothing or no one else around, the water is calm as ever. Annie decides she better get back home before another one comes on, she is a little frightened as this never happened before and no one is around to help. She composes herself, and then continues on with her swim.

Not long into her swim, Annie starts thrashing around again, this time though she feels like she got bumped, not like she's having a seizure and thrashing around from something inside of her, but from outside of her....fear sets in..... But what is it?...more fear........Then she is jolted again!... and again!.... Now she is just a rag doll in the water having an epileptic seizure. Just as quickly as all this happened, the commotion stops.

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