VISUAL PROMPT
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'The Lake'. Write a crime, mystery, or horror story about what happened at this location.
Allendale
Allendale, where it all took place, Allendale is typically a very quiet town many come to find peace and serenity. That all changed when the swarm came. Allendale finds its fame from a lake nestled among the rolling hills. Not big enough to draw boats but not too small to have fun in. The lake has one dock where the kids swim on hot summer days while their parents sit on the shore nestled up with a sweet tea and a good book. People had all kinds of different names for the lake but nothing official was ever provided. Not even to the feds who showed up to investigate what happened after the swarm came.
Allendale had its fair share of insects, black flies to "no-seeums". Nothing prepared the town for what was coming, no warning either. What started as a cloud free summer day quickly turned to dark, local weather was actually reporting a cloudy day which really threw the town for a loop considering there wasn't a cloud in the sky. The swarm, it was approaching with such a mass that it was causing false echoes reporting as clouds. Like any other day, families were headed to the lake when Lisa, a mother of two noticed the sky going dark. Lisa kept gazing at the sky but couldn't quite make out what she was seeing but soon arrived at the lake.
Lisa got out with her children, said hi to the other parents she was used to seeing all summer. As the light started to fade in the afternoon they were trying to make the best of the day. Lisa loved to read and was starting to find it difficult to even read her book. The point came when she couldn't read at all, she was over it, grabbed her phone to investigate the weather issue when a noise like she had never heard before dawned upon her ears. She dropped her phone to cover her ears, looking for her children in a panic.
There, sitting on the dock where her two children, with their ears covered as well along with everyone she could see. Lisa jumped up to run and grab her children to leave when she could begin to physically feel the noise. The "darkness" was ever closer now, not up in the sky as it was before. Before Lisa could reach her children she was consumed, she fell to the ground unable to move. The swarm pinned her down, breathing became difficult. She thought she could make out her children but in reality everyone was now consumed. Time passed and Lisa's husband at work in the city drove out to Allendale after not hearing back from Lisa. He texted her, called her but could see her on the family tracker.
As Henry raced towards the blinking circle on his family map he noticed something strange. Cars just stopped on the road, the people inside looked to be sleeping. As he entered town, more people but none of them moving. This caused him to drive even faster to the circle on the map. Once he arrived he found Lisa, lifeless with her arm outstretched towards her two children he could see on the dock. Everyone, dead, but not wounded in that he could tell. An entire town wiped out by something, but what, to this day we do not know what happened in Allendale.