Pointless Town (Description 1)
The sun rose over the dying grass, penetrating its diffuse light through flimsy curtains and casting thin shadows across building faces. Buildings on the edge of town hogged sunlight from others, like the defense in a basketball game, so that the farther you went into town, the more the buildings were drowned in shadow. They were portrayed as a detestable orange color in the increasing light. The silence was almost unbearable, enough to feel the pressure of the air pounding your eardrums. Not a living thing moved. In the middle of the town was a rectangular building towering over the rest of the town with a steeple-like projection jutting into the pale sky. In the middle of this high projection was a large glaring clock with inconvenient roman numerals on the four cardinal points of the face, which was a weathered red.
Behind the large building, placed clumsily and ill planned in the middle of the town, the world was in complete disarray. Garbage flew back and forth with the wind and collected tiredly in narrow passages between the buildings. The smell of waste was stifling and made worse by a shallow attempt to cover it up by perfume oozing from broken glass bottles. Rivers of liquid waste flowed unabashedly through small ridges in cracks on the ground. Run down houses were almost shoulder-to-shoulder and smelled almost worse than the streets they avoided. Beyond this disaster lay fields of green with large bald spots of soil spreading like a disease. The grass was wet and short because of the animals being led day by day to partake of this bland delicacy until they got fat. Under the smell of sickly sweet grass was the unmistakable smell of dung. The fields seemed to never end and they were covered in droppings from animals, lazily left for nature to take care of. The sun slowly rose higher in the sky and a cacophony of lazy people waking came clambering from the village. The buildings were now their original snuff-colored hue. People shuffled about quickly and decisively as they went through their drab day.
