Chapter Eleven :

Chapter Eleven :, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

"THE BALLAD OF MISTAH BONES"

There were clear stretches of pavement over a hundred yards long, and many of the further streets were completely drained. Dying fish and marine plants expired in the centre of the roadways, and huge banks of black sludge were silted up into the gutters and over the sidewalks,

JG Ballard, The Drowned World.