DBSK Flashfic Challenge

The next flashfic challenge prompt is this quote from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald:

"They were careless people... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

with this picture (credit), suggested by sleepish.

Flashfic is 100 to 1000 words, but longer responses to the flashfic prompts are allowed. Flashfic challenges run for two weeks. This one ends 19 April 2011, PDT.