SFS -2 (Short Fictional Story)

A Foggy Night

It was clear spring evening at the quiet town in southern US. The mayor of the town was in an after dinner party thrown by the largest business tycoons of the town. They were celebrating a huge legal victory against a number of environmentalist groups who protested the indiscriminate dumping of industrial waste in the nearby swamplands. Rich businesspersons along with lawmakers from the both sides of the aisle were joking about the liberal snowflakes who were desperate to stop the factories’ waste from contaminating Mother Earth, to save her. The noble intentions of the environment protection groups were trampled by the immense money power that the moguls had. From influencing the Judge, to contributing in the re-election campaigns of the majority of the lawmakers, and manipulating evidence, they had done it all, and as a result, the verdict went in favor of the contaminators. As they wined and dined, unbeknownst to them, a heavy fog slowly began to descend on the town. See, Mother Nature has a strange way to take revenge. The toxic wastes along with bleach, which were used as a futile way to clean were dumped in the marshland, where copious amount of ammonia were already forming due to decomposition of organic matters in the stagnant waters of the swamp. The reaction in between them created lethal chloramine gas, slowly enveloping the whole town. Once again, due to the greed of a few humans, a lot were going to suffer.