They Danced While The Devil Watched
It was that time of year.
The parties had been raging for weeks.
Each year thousands of college students descended on the beaches to ravage the local ecosystem for a month of debauchery and bad decisions.
Gallons of alcohol guzzled in seconds.
There were parties.
There were keg stands.
There were one night stands.
In fact, there were far too many one night stands.
But the parties went on.
Everywhere you looked it was a VH1 video come to life. The beach was full of beer bottles red solo cups and passed out dudes baking in the sun.
Young people swayed to the music from a dozen different speakers. They played volleyball on the beach but without their lack of equilibrium made it nearly impossible to return the serve.
Hundreds ventured out into the water splashing and swimming.
All the while no one seemed to noticed the sharply dressed man walking among them.
He looked at them in horror, as thought he was walking through a parade of zombies, but they somehow had fewer brains.
He kept going trying to keep them from touching him. Partly because of what was…
