Lemmings
Ross Jeffery
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the atrophying heart out of the place and the locals alike.
Over time a great sickness emerged from the very soil or quite possibly the sea and laid waste to the
sleepy, picturesque coastal town of Polperro. An affliction which caused people (townsfolk mainly,
but visitors too were often found wanting) to throw themselves from the cliffs into the crashing
waves and unforgivable rocks which populated their base as if they were the jaws of some mythical
sea-dwelling creature lying in wait.
‘Lemmings’ was the moniker these two young boys – Michael and Harold – gave them.
Michael and Harold spent their days charting the Lemming’s fateful journeys; following each plague-
riddled soul down the dark and somewhat lonely passage from the land of the living, to the land of
the dead.
It was fun at first, a morbid curiosity and fascination at cataloguing their finds as well as pilfering
what they could from the broken bodies that plummeted to the foot of the cliffs. But things have
escalated quickly, and the ‘lemmings’ are marching: what once was a trickle has become a never-
ending tide of zombie-like fodder.
No one is safe.
No one.