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Submitted to Contest #322
CW: Gore, body horror, mental healthA man of a middling age knelt by a pond. He hadn’t seen a decent drink of water in two days, having spent a small but marked portion of that time lying prone in the muck and gravel and sucking up even the smallest of reservoirs there was an earthly basin to hold. He knelt horrifically in his desperation, as any man would, his body contorted and crooked and waned like the curl of a hardened spider. He drank with his hands, and after a flurry of motion, caught a glimpse of his reflection and shuddered. For a...
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