Blue
ShortStory 6,182 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"It’s so dark. Black-orange-bloody-bruised. Flashlights throw long beams across the sand. Police lights flicker blue and red, blue and red, blue and red, and the Ferris wheel on the pier glows an obscene neon. No one thought to turn off the calliope. It echoes off the empty boardwalk, cheerfully macabre."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Fantasy, where the author gets the click.