Now the lake is poisoned. The government bought out the licenses. Tomorrow, the bulldozers come to rip out the docks.
Negative prompt: cartoon, illustration, painting, 3D render, plastic, oversaturated, shallow depth of field without purpose, empty expression, no context sc photorealism
Marco had fished this lake for forty-seven years. When his father died, they gave him the boat, the nets, and the debt. But not the photograph. That he found tucked inside a loose floorboard of the dock—his father at eighteen, smiling, holding a fish larger than Marco had ever seen. Now the lake is poisoned