dystopian future, single wanderer

The person who arrives to an abandoned city or town may be from another world or time, but I remember as he is walking he sees a sink and reads "hot" and "cold" on the knobs. He touches the hot knob and notices that it does not feel hot and thinks, it must have lost its power.

This is all I remember.

Thank you for your help.

I don't remember this being in the farcical Motel of the Mysteries, but it is the sort of thing that could be in there.

>2 Wes_Librairianson: Okay, thank you! I will check it out.

By The Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benet.

Touchstone: By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benet

>4 Timelapse: Thank you!!!

Thank you so much!

You are very welcome. It is one of my favorite short stories.