Alice Whitaker

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“Bummer Summer” by Alice Whitaker

Submitted to Contest #262

Just keep running. My feet hit the ground, one after another, pounding into the rough soil beneath me. A searing pain shot through my leg as I slammed my foot down onto a rock. My legs momentarily gave way, but the fear that possessed me corrected my sense of balance. Just keep running. Please. I could still see her. In my mind. At the beginning of the summer, we'd been paired up as the head counselors of Cabin Dung Beetle. I fell fast. Faster than normal. The way her golden hair bounced as she ran, the way that her eyes crinkled when she ...

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