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April 6, 2016

#1664: Mycology

Mycology

[[Two children, a girl and a boy, are talking to an adult woman as they walk away from her. The boy has a bucket.]]

Girl: Me and Jack are going up the hill to fetch a pail of water.

[[The children have left; the woman calls after them.]]

Woman: Okay, have fun!

[[The woman stands and thinks.]]

Woman: … wait. What the heck is going on with the hydrology around here?

{{Title text: Jill and Jack

began to frack.

The oil boosts their town.

But fractures make

the bedrock shake

and Jack came tumbling down.}}