Title: Salt
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: None. To be safe, let's say spoilers through Episode 32.
Prompt: Why the Sea is Salt Really

(Written in one hour, yay!)

Summary: Back then, Tamika thought she could see so far.


There used to be docks here; a boardwalk flexing dry fingers over the gentle curve of sagebrush. Tamika's family brought a picnic once, between the opening and closing of the park. She and her brother pretended to skip stones across an ocean, salty as tears, stretching as far as the eye could see.

Back then, she thought she could see so far.

The rocks and rubble make decent enough cover; the sign, more so. Nothing is here, it says, and everyone turns their eyes away. Nothing was ever here.

Certainly not a girl with a slingshot and too many memories.