The harrowing tale of The Great Watermelon Conflagration of Watermelonville. A tragic tale nobody would believe if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes.
Welcome to the story of Watermelonville. It seemed so quaint when I first arrived.
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So much extra watermelon at the Watermelonville Fair that year…
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…we had all kinds of watermelon coming across the channel, just coming up out of the water everywhere…
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…we couldn’t have known this strain of watermelon was airborne, and it grew on stucco, cedar shingles, etc. it spread quickly…
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…so the baker thought it would be a good idea to scare it off his building with a little fire. he wasn’t thinking straight, driven temporarily mad by the destruction the watermelon were wreaking, and then…
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…so the baker thought it would be a good idea to scare it off his building with a little fire. he wasn’t thinking straight, driven temporarily mad by the destruction the watermelon were wreaking, and then…
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…everything started to catch fire. Who knew watermelon was so flammable, not to mention the humble homes. And it got worse by the minute…
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…it was as if the whole town was going up in watermelon flames, while whole buildings contorted in the heat into unnatural, impossible shapes…
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…the whole city was engulfed in the fiery sweet smell of roasted watermelon and cedar shingles roasted to perfection…
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…with night approaching there was simply nothing left to do, but make sure the bears no longer had access to matches in the former town of Watermelonville. RIP.
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