Lycée George-Sand La Châtre

A man was walking in the desert.

After him bull-frogs jumped and sang a sinister song. But he couldn’t hear them because an ice storm drowned out their song. He walked on and didn’t see the ice block wich sank into the sand.

Two days later, as every day, he took his car to go to his workplace. As usual, a big traffic jam blocked the street ; he heard on the radio a man who told how his girl friend had left him, a stupid story. The man who was listening to this stupid story was called Joe. He looked out of his car at the people who walked in the street as usual. After two hours of traffic jam, he finally reached his office.

During diner-time he became aware of the rain which was pouring. When he went back to his home, he saw many bull-frogs in the street.

The next-morning, he didn’t have electicity and he realized his cold coffee tasted terrible. After that he went to the city ; over there the usual a traffic jam blocked him ; as usual he listened to the radio ; he heard a good music piece by Django Reinhardt, but after five minutes : no more music. He looked at the radio and saw water trickle down from it. Stupefied he looked out of his car and saw water, water everywhere and people, people drowned.

Horrified, he broke whith a foot kick the sunshine roof and escaped the car. When he reached the surface, he swam to the hotel, he clang to his roof and saw that all of the town was bellow the water. He remained on this roof during ten hours, he was starved and wet. 

He woke up in the desert ; an old aborigine was standing next to him.

Joe asked the old aborigine for his identity ; he replied that he was a chaman. Joe asked him if he knew about the city ad the water.

He retorted that the city was destroyed by his ancestor because Australians had killed nature whith trucks, guns, pollution.

He retorted also, that all Australia would be destoyed as the city. Disturbed by this information, Joe went away in the desert.

He was walking in the desert.

After him bull-frogs jumped and sang a sinister song. But he couldn’t hear them because an ice storm drowned out their song. He walked on and didn’t see the ice block which sank into the sand. He walked during many days.

The australian police discovered Joe’s body two months later. In their opinion, he had died after having eaten a bull-frog. The police found also a piece of ice, but it’s stupid, there isn’t water in the desert...