Eerie, Indiana drabble: Obsolete

[froodle]

The weather station sat on the northern-most point of the long rocky outcropping that thrust out over Lake Eerie. It had sat unused for many years, and generations of birds and the small creeping things that lived in the forest had made their homes there.

A yellowing poster hung in the cobwebbed window, it’s lamination cracked and peeling with age. A bright cartoon sun in wrap-around shades and a peaked cap turned sideways atop his slicked-back sunbeams invited visitors to identify the various types of cloud visible in the sky above them.

“Is he... riding a skateboard?” asked Sara-Sue, horrified.



Pay Attention and Side Stories

Preparations by froodle. Winston Chisel, the morning he became Mayor.

Blue by froodle: Sara Sue and Marilyn Teller in the laundry room.

Reflection by froodle: Sara Sue in Paris.

The Storm by froodle, in which Mayor Chisel has a very specific job for Eerie's resident weatherman

Pay Attention Part 1 by froodle

Pay Attention Part 2 by froodle

Pay Attention Part 3 by froodle

Pay Attention Part 4 by froodle

Echoes by froodle: the worlds where Simon and Marshall stayed are very different

Pay Attention Part 5 by froodle

Pay Attention Part 6 by froodle

Pay Attention Part 7 by froodle

Sculpture by froodle, in which Sara Sue must face off against the forces of municipal artwork

Pay Attention Part 8 by froodle

Pay Attention Part 9 by froodle

Pay Attention Part 10 by froodle

Civil Disobedience by froodle, in which Sara Sue objects most strenuously to the Mayor's behaviour

Christmas Morning by froodle; takes place in the Pay Attention-verse, after the main story

Pay Attention: Coda by froodle





The Weather Series

Wally by froodle, in which a certain weatherman doesn't lose his temper, but is sorely tried

Vacation by froodle, in which Weatherman Wally visits a tropical paradise without ever leaving Eerie city limits

Sick Day by froodle, in which Weatherman Wally does not go to work

The Storm by froodle, in which Mayor Chisel has a very specific job for Eerie's resident weatherman

Setting the Scene by froodle, in which Wally prepares for Christmas

Holidays are Coming by froodle, in which something else prepares for Christmas

Garden by froodle, in which Wally eats ice-cream

Strawberry by froodle, in which there is unauthorised hubbub in Eerie

Stormfront by froodle, in which Wally takes a hands-on approach to firefighting.

Sisters by froodle, in which we visit Normal, Illinois

Still by froodle, in which we find out there are far worse things than Old Bob

Midsummer by froodle, in which the Eerie Express returns, right on schedule

Castle by froodle, in which there is unexpected architecture in Eerie

Waiting In by froodle, in which there is an ice-storm and a handyman does not arrive

Squall by froodle, in which Wally and Old Bob have a disagreement